Sacvan Bercovitch

The Rites of Assent

Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780415900157
• ISBN-10: 0415900158
• Artikelnr.: 21722362

Autorenporträt

Sacvan Bercovitch is Carswell Professor of English at Harvard University and is currently the General Editor of the multi-volume Cambridge History of American Literature. His previous books include The PuritanOrigins of the American Self, The American Jeremiad, and The Office "The Scarlet Letter."

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Music of America 2. The Ritual of
Consensus 3. The Ends of Puritan Rhetoric 4. Cotton Mather and the Vision
of America 5. The Typology of Mission, from Edwards to Independence 6.
Continuing Revolution: George Bancroft and the Myth of Progress 7. The
Return of Hester Prynne 8. Pierre , or the Ambiguities of Literary History
9. Emerson, Individualism, and Liberal Dissent 10. The Problem of Ideology
in American Literary Studies Endnotes Index