The rites of assent : transformations in the symbolic construction of America / Sacvan Bercovitch.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1993.Description: viii, 424 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 041590014X (HB)
- 0415900158 (PB)
- 810.9 20
- PS92 .B45 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-410) and index.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Introduction: The music of America -- The ritual of consensus -- The ends of Puritan rhetoric -- Cotton Mather and the vision of America -- The typology of mission, from Edwards to Independence -- Continuing revolution : George Bancroft and the myth of process -- The return of Hester Prynne -- Pierre, or the ambiguities of American literary history -- Emerson, individualism, and liberal dissent -- The problem of ideology in a time of dissensus.