The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of AmericaRoutledge, 14 janv. 2014 - 432 pages The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of mission, and specifically (in chapters on Puritan rhetoric, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the movement from Revival to Revolution) to the legacy of early New England. |
Table des matières
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2 The Ritual of Consensus | 29 |
3 The Ends of Puritan Rhetoric | 68 |
4 Cotton Mather and the Vision of America | 90 |
5 The Typology of Mission from Edwards to Independence | 147 |
George Bancroft and the Myth of Process | 168 |
7 The Return of Hester Prynne | 194 |
8 Pierre or the Ambiguities of American Literary History | 246 |
9 Emerson Individualism and Liberal Dissent | 307 |
10 The Problem of Ideology in a Time of Dissensus | 353 |
Notes | 377 |
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America Sacvan Bercovitch Aucun aperçu disponible - 1993 |
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