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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>vii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=80></TD><TD>List of Illustrations</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD>PART I: MEANING AND MORAL ORDER</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>17</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(168)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Power of the Public Covenant</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>24</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(62)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Only a Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>86</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(58)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Legalism and Orthodoxy: Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>144</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(41)</TD></TR><TR><TD>PART II: CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>185</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(276)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>The Experimental Philosophy of Farming: Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>190</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(40)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Christian Knowledge and Revolutionary New England: The Education of Ezra Stiles</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>230</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(55)</TD></TR><TR><TD>PART III: REVOLUTION AND STEADY HABITS</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Print, Poetry, and Politics: John Trumbull and the Transformation of the Public Sphere</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>285</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(42)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Reawakening the Public Mind: Timothy Dwight and the Rhetoric of New England</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>327</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(59)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Political Characters and Public Words</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>386</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(75)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Conclusion: The New Politics of Revolution and Steady Habits</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>461</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Appendix 1: Connecticut Imprints</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>487</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Appendix 2: Connecticut Election Sermons</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>491</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Appendix 3: A Note on the Historiography of the Great Awakening</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>495</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(4)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>499</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

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

A speaking aristocracy : transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut