The Rites of Assent Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

Sacvan Bercovitch

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415900140
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	14 Jan 1993
DEWEY:	810.9
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	424
Weight:	760g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	31mm