Title A speaking aristocracy : transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut / Christopher Grasso

Published Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 511 pages) : illustrations Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Contents The power of the public covenant -- Only a great awakening: Jonathan Edwards and the regulation of religious discourse -- Legalism and orthodoxy: Thomas Clap and the transformation of legal culture -- The experimental philosophy of farming: Jared Eliot and the cultivation of Connecticut -- Christian knowledge and revolutionary New England: the education of Ezra Stiles -- Print, poetry, and politics: John Trumbull and the transformation of the public sphere -- Reawakening the public mind: Timothy Dwight and the rhetoric of New England -- Political characters and public words Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Discourse analysis -- Social aspects -- Connecticut -- History -- 18th century Rhetoric -- Social aspects -- Connecticut -- History -- 18th century Elite (Social sciences) -- Connecticut -- History -- 18th century Intellectuals -- Connecticut -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Discourse analysis -- Social aspects Elite (Social sciences) Intellectual life Intellectuals Rhetoric -- Social aspects Communicatie. Elites. Massa (sociale wetenschappen) SUBJECT Connecticut -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Subject Connecticut Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. ISBN 9781469601205 1469601206

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