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A Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American … and the University of North Carolina Press)

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As cultural authority was once reconstituted within the Revolutionary era, knowledge reconceived within the age of Enlightenment, and the means of communication radically altered by the proliferation of print, speakers and writers in eighteenth-century The usa started 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 often addressed the public. After midcentury, then again, newspapers, essays, and in the end lay orations introduced new rhetorical strategies to persuade or instruct an audience. With the upward thrust of a print culture within the early Republic, the intellectual elite had to compete with other voices and address more than one 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 slightly as a civic conversation of the people.

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