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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Grasso, Christopher. Speaking aristocracy. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607161861 Online version: Grasso, Christopher. Speaking aristocracy. Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607646996 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher Grasso; Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. |
ISBN: | 0807824712 9780807824719 0807847720 9780807847725 |
OCLC Number: | 39539252 |
Description: | viii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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. |
Responsibility: | Christopher Grasso. |
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Abstract:
Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, the author of this volume explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in 18th-century Connecticut.
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