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Bercovitch, Sacvan was born on October 4, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Alexander and Bertha (Avrutick) Bercovitch.
("Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published o...)
"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 on colonial religious studies."-John F. Wilson, Theology Today "Bercovitch casts a dazzling light on the myth of America and the conundrums of individuality and community that are the core of the American character."-Michael Zuckerman, Early American Literature
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(The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies thro...)
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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( “Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published...)
“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 on colonial religious studies.”—John F. Wilson, Theology Today “Bercovitch casts a dazzling light on the myth of America and the conundrums of individuality and community that are the core of the American character.”—Michael Zuckerman, Early American Literature
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"The Scarlet Letter has proved our most enduring classic," writes Sacvan Bercovitch, "because it is the liberal example par excellence of art as ideological mimesis. To understand the office of the A is to see how culture empowers symbolic form, including forms of dissent, and how symbols participate in the dynamics of culture, including the dynamics of constraint." With an approach that both reflects and contests developments in literary studies, Bercovitch explores these connections from two perspectives: first, he examines a historical reading of the novel’s unities; and then, a rhetorical analysis of key mid-nineteenth-century issues, at home and abroad. In order to highlight the relation between rhetoric and history, he focuses on the point at which the scarlet letter does its office at last, the moment when Hester decides to come home to America. In The Office of "The Scarlet Letter," Bercovitch argues that the process by which the United States usurped "America" for itself, symbolically, is also the process by which liberalism established political and economic dominance. In the course of his study, he offers sustained discussions of Hawthorne’s irony and ambiguity, of aesthetic and social strategies of cohesion, and of the conundrums of liberal dissent. Winner of the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowe prize, The Office of "The Scarlet Letter" provides a theoretical redefinition of the function of symbolism in culture and an exemplary literary-ideological reading of a major text.
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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
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( When Sacvan Bercovitch’s The American Jeremiad first ap...)
When Sacvan Bercovitch’s The American Jeremiad first appeared in 1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural formation in America, from the Puritans’ writings through the major literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary edition, Bercovitch has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging new preface that reflects on his classic study of the role of the political sermon, or jeremiad, in America from a contemporary perspective, while assessing developments in the field of American studies and the culture at large.
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Bercovitch, Sacvan was born on October 4, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Alexander and Bertha (Avrutick) Bercovitch.
Bachelor, Sir George William College, 1961. Master of Arts, Claremont Graduate School, California, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Claremont Graduate School, California, 2965.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Concordia University, 1993. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Claremont University, 2005.
Assistant professor English and American literature Brandeis University, 1966-1968. Associate professor University California, San Diego, 1968-1970. Professor English and American Literature Columbia University, 1970-1983.
Powell M. Cabot research professor American literature Harvard University, since 1983. Lecturer, Kyoto, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Konstanz, Lisbon, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Salzburg, Coimbra, Montreal, Rome, Budapest, Paris, Venice, Bologna, Toronto, Oxford, Berlin, Moscow, Prague, Olomouc, Ostrava, Brno, Yale University, Princeton University, University Pennsylvania, University California, Berkeley, Los Angeles, San Diego, Irvine, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Concordia College, Claremont Graduate School, many others. Executive committee American studies Modern Language Association, 1976-1978.
Executive committee American Studies Association 1980-1982, president 1982-1984. Advisor, consultant in field.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Modern Language Association (member Executive Committee American section 1976-1978), English Institute, American Studies Association (president 1982-1984) M C.
Married Susan L. Mizruchi. Children: Eytan, Alexander.