A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century ConnecticutAs 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 t |
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Contents
MEANING AND MORAL ORDER | 17 |
The Power of the Public Covenant | 24 |
Only a Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse | 86 |
Legalism and Orthodoxy Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture | 144 |
CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT | 185 |
The Experimental Philosophy of Farming Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut | 190 |
Christian Knowledge and Revolutionary New England The Education of Ezra Stiles | 230 |
REVOLUTION AND STEADY HABITS | 279 |
Reawakening the Public Mind Timothy Dwight and the Rhetoric of New England | 327 |
Political Characters and Public Words | 386 |
The New Politics of Revolution and Steady Habits | 461 |
Connecticut Imprints | 487 |
Connecticut Election Sermons | 491 |
A Note on the Historiography of the Great Awakening | 495 |
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Print Poetry and Politics John Trumbull and the Transformation of the Public Sphere | 285 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-century Connecticut Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Series |
| Author | Christopher Grasso |
| Contributor | Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0807847720, 9780807847725 |
| Length | 511 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) History / United States / State & Local / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural |
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