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A Speaking Aristocracy : Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press SeriesPublisher: Chapel Hill : Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (526 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469601205
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Speaking AristocracyDDC classification:
  • 306/.09746/09033
LOC classification:
  • F97.G73 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I: MEANING AND MORAL ORDER -- 1. The Power of the Public Covenant -- 2. Only a Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse -- 3. Legalism and Orthodoxy: Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture -- PART II: CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4. The Experimental Philosophy of Farming: Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut -- 5. Christian Knowledge and Revolutionary New England: The Education of Ezra Stiles -- PART III: REVOLUTION AND STEADY HABITS -- 6. Print, Poetry, and Politics: John Trumbull and the Transformation of the Public Sphere -- 7. Reawakening the Public Mind: Timothy Dwight and the Rhetoric of New England -- 8. Political Characters and Public Words -- Conclusion: The New Politics of Revolution and Steady Habits -- Appendix 1: Connecticut Imprints -- Appendix 2: Connecticut Election Sermons -- Appendix 3: A Note on the Historiography of the Great Awakening -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I: MEANING AND MORAL ORDER -- 1. The Power of the Public Covenant -- 2. Only a Great Awakening: Jonathan Edwards and the Regulation of Religious Discourse -- 3. Legalism and Orthodoxy: Thomas Clap and the Transformation of Legal Culture -- PART II: CULTIVATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4. The Experimental Philosophy of Farming: Jared Eliot and the Cultivation of Connecticut -- 5. Christian Knowledge and Revolutionary New England: The Education of Ezra Stiles -- PART III: REVOLUTION AND STEADY HABITS -- 6. Print, Poetry, and Politics: John Trumbull and the Transformation of the Public Sphere -- 7. Reawakening the Public Mind: Timothy Dwight and the Rhetoric of New England -- 8. Political Characters and Public Words -- Conclusion: The New Politics of Revolution and Steady Habits -- Appendix 1: Connecticut Imprints -- Appendix 2: Connecticut Election Sermons -- Appendix 3: A Note on the Historiography of the Great Awakening -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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