A speaking aristocracy
transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut
by Christopher Grasso
As cultural authority was reconstituted in the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived in the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century America began to describe themselves and their world in strikingly new ways.
A Speaking Aristocracy deepens our understanding of these sweeping changes by grounding them in a local context: the intellectual culture at Yale College and the world of public speech and writing in eighteenth-century Connecticut.
Using biographical case studies and drawing on hundreds of printed and manuscript sources - including sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles - Christopher Grasso elucidates the complex and changing relationships among religion, politics, law, science, and literature.
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Discourse analysis, Elite (Social sciences), History, Intellectual life, Intellectuals, Rhetoric, Social aspects, Social aspects of Discourse analysis, Social aspects of Rhetoric, Connecticut, social conditions, Connecticut, history, United states, intellectual life, United states, history, 1783-1865Places
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Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
2012, University of North Carolina Press
in English
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Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
2012, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
in English
0807839205 9780807839201
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A speaking aristocracy: transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut
1999, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807824712 9780807824719
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