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27%OFFSacvan Bercovitch - The Puritan Origins of the American Self: With a New Preface - 9780300172416 - V9780300172416
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The Puritan Origins of the American Self: With a New Preface

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Description for The Puritan Origins of the American Self: With a New Preface Paperback. Deals with the development of the concept of American identity. Centering upon the interaction of language, myth, and society, this title explores the Puritan achievement in its broadest cultural context. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC93. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 450.
“Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of ‘the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.’”—Jack P. Greene, History

“The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller.”—David Levin, William and Mary Quarterly

“A brave and brilliant book…that is the most significant and far-reaching contribution to the theory of American literature in recent years.”—Alan Trachtenberg, Partisan Review

“A study which reaches with daring ease from the Bible and Augustine to Emerson and Whitman… [and] offers an agenda for the next several decades of scholarly work ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300172416
SKU
V9780300172416
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Ref
99-50

Reviews for The Puritan Origins of the American Self: With a New Preface
“The issuing of The Puritan Origins of the American Self, with a fascinating new preface by Sacvan Bercovitch, is an occasion for celebration. A landmark contribution to American studies, the book is also a model, still vital and generative after many years, for any attempt to analyze the ideological dream-life upon which nations are founded. Bercovitch has an uncanny ability ... Read more

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