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Author Grasso, Christopher.

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

Publication Info. 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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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.0974 G769S    Check Shelf
Description viii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Connecticut -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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.
Added Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 0807824712 alkaline paper
0807847720 paperback alkaline paper
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