A Speaking Aristocracy

A Speaking Aristocracy
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 526
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ISBN-10 : 9780807839201
ISBN-13 : 0807839205
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Book Synopsis A Speaking Aristocracy by : Christopher Grasso

Download or read book A Speaking Aristocracy written by Christopher Grasso and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 new ways. Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, Christopher Grasso explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in eighteenth-century Connecticut. In New England through the first half of the century, only learned clergymen regularly addressed the public. After midcentury, however, newspapers, essays, and eventually lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the rise of a print culture in the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address multiple audiences. By the end of the century, concludes Grasso, public discourse came to be understood not as the words of an authoritative few to the people but rather as a civic conversation of the people.


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