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<div>“Perhaps the most penetrating examination yet published of ‘the sources of our obsessive concern with the meaning of America.’”—Jack P. Greene, <I>History</I> <BR><BR>“The most valuable achievement in colonial American literature since the best work of Perry Miller.”—David Levin, <I>William and Mary Quarterly</I> <BR><BR>“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, <I>Partisan Review</I> <BR><BR>“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, <I>Theology Today</I> <BR><BR>“[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, <I>Early American Literature</I> </div>
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- Author
- Sacvan Bercovitch, John Roger Paas, George C. Schoolfield
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300162233
- Category
- nonfiction
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