Drawing on hundreds of sermons, essays, speeches, letters, journals, plays, poems, and newspaper articles, the author of this volume explores how intellectuals, preachers, and polemicists transformed both the forms and the substance of public discussion in 18th-century Connecticut.
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[T]here have been many fine studies of eighteenth-century intellectual history, few are as sophisticated, as subtle, and as learned.
Journal of American History
This book is a wonderful portrait of leadership and public discourse in the Revolutionary era.
Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame
A significant contribution to our understanding of high culture in one place and time.
Journal of the Early Republic
Historians of public life throughout the early modern Atlantic world will want to explore his account.
American Historical Review
A hugely impressive book, with an engaging style and a nice eye for anecdote.
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Grasso explores the ways that intellectuals, preachers, and polemecists transformed the forms and substance of public discussion and examines the impact of change on complex relationships between religion, politics, and moral authority.
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Eighteenth-century speakers and writers often honored the memory of the first planters who established the colony of Connecticut and the charter that framed its civil institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
establishing public happiness, public covenant, covenant discourse, communion controversy, covenant preaching, birthday reflections, humble inquiry, visible sainthood, town resolutions, professing people, election sermons, infidel philosophy, civil millennialism, speaking aristocracy, political delusion, certificate law, rhetorical occasions, moral declension, political sermons, steady habits, fast sermon, federal theology, covenant language, national covenant, universal providence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New Haven, Jonathan Edwards, New London, Ezra Stiles, American Mercury, General Assembly, New Divinity, Thomas Clap, Timothy Dwight, Standing Order, John Trumbull, Elisha Williams, American Revolution, Stamp Act, New Light, Norwich Packet, Saybrook Platform, Continuation of Essay, Chapel Hill, Solomon Williams, Yale University Library, Joseph Bellamy, Benjamin Gale, Literary Diary New!
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establishing public happiness, public covenant, covenant discourse, communion controversy, covenant preaching, birthday reflections, humble inquiry, visible sainthood, town resolutions, professing people, election sermons, infidel philosophy, civil millennialism, speaking aristocracy, political delusion, certificate law, rhetorical occasions, moral declension, political sermons, steady habits, fast sermon, federal theology, covenant language, national covenant, universal providence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New England, New Haven, Jonathan Edwards, New London, Ezra Stiles, American Mercury, General Assembly, New Divinity, Thomas Clap, Timothy Dwight, Standing Order, John Trumbull, Elisha Williams, American Revolution, Stamp Act, New Light, Norwich Packet, Saybrook Platform, Continuation of Essay, Chapel Hill, Solomon Williams, Yale University Library, Joseph Bellamy, Benjamin Gale, Literary Diary New!
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- The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Vol. 1 (With a Memoir By Sereno E. Dwight) by Jonathan Edwards on 23 pages
- Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut by Jackson Main on 5 pages
- The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England by Harry S. Stout on 5 pages
- The Sacred Cause of Liberty: Republican Thought and the Millennium in Revolutionary New England by Nathan O. Hatch on 4 pages
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 4: Volume 4: July 1, 1750 through June 30, 1753 (The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Series) by Benjamin Franklin on 4 pages
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- Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) by Scott Slawinski in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America by Cynthia A. Kierner in Back Matter
- The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review by Larry D. Kramer in Back Matter
- Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America: From George Washington to George W. Bush by Michael Meckler in Back Matter
- Revolutionary Generation: Harvard Men and the Consequences of Independence by Conrad Edick Wright in Back Matter
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