American Jeremiad

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 01‏/09‏/1980 - 256 من الصفحات

"This is a dazzling performance. It supplies conceptual links between phenomena where historians have often sensed a connection without being able to describe it adequately. . . [Bercovitch] has written intellectual history at the highest level."—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books

 

المحتوى

The Puritan Errand Reassessed
3
2 The Blessings of Time And Eternity
31
3 The Genetics of Salvation
62
4 The Typology of Americas Mission
93
5 Ritual of Consensus
132
The Symbol of America
176
Notes
213
Index
233
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نبذة عن المؤلف (1980)

Sacvan Bercovitch, who is a professor at Harvard University, is probably the most influential critic in American studies today. Tracing the function of rhetoric in American writing from the Puritans through the nineteenth century, Bercovitch has argued that the persuasiveness of rhetoric is in proportion to its capacity to help people act in history. In his books, Bercovitch has revealed the power of American rhetoric as it creates a myth of America that conflates religious and political issues, transforming even the most despairing and critical energies into affirmations of the American way. Among his major arguments is the idea that the rhetoric of America's colonial sermons and histories, founding documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, and novels of the American Renaissance, all participate in the project of transforming what he calls dissensus into rituals of consensus.

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