| Description |
1 online resource (434 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: The Music of America; 2. The Ritual of Consensus; 3. The Ends of Puritan Rhetoric; 4. Cotton Mather and the Vision of America; 5. The Typology of Mission, from Edwards to Independence; 6. Continuing Revolution: George Bancroft and the Myth of Process; 7. The Return of Hester Prynne; 8. Pierre, or the Ambiguities of American Literary History; 9. Emerson, Individualism, and Liberal Dissent; 10. The Problem of Ideology in a Time of Dissensus; Notes; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Civilization
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317796183 |
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1317796187 |
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