Grasso, Christopher. <br/><br/>
A speaking aristocracy :  transforming public discourse in eighteenth-century Connecticut / 
Christopher Grasso. 
 - Chapel Hill :  Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,  (c)1999. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 511 pages) :  illustrations. 
 - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781469601205 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Discourse analysis--Social aspects--History--Connecticut--18th century.<br/>Rhetoric--Social aspects--History--Connecticut--18th century.<br/>Elite (Social sciences)--History--Connecticut--18th century.<br/>Intellectuals--History--Connecticut--18th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F97  / .S643 1999