{"product_id":"speaking-aristocracy-christopher-grasso-9780807847725","title":"Speaking Aristocracy: Transforming Public Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e the people but rather as a civic conversation \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e the people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Grasso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807847720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807847725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/08\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.15w x 1.28d","brand":"Christopher Grasso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962517410047,"sku":"9780807847725","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d55d199a-8d4e-4403-8521-4271197bd00d.jpg?v=1750651688","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/speaking-aristocracy-christopher-grasso-9780807847725","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}