A Speaking Aristocracy : Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781469601205
- 306/.09746/09033
- F97.G73 1999
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.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
There are no comments on this title.