Sacvan Bercovitch
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Canadian literary and cultural critic
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- Bachelors English University of Manitoba
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. During an academic career spanning five decades, he was considered to be one of the most influential and controversial figures of his generation in the emerging field of American studies.
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Published Works
- The American Jeremiad (1979) (599)
- The Cambridge history of American literature (1995) (264)
- The Puritan Origins of the American Self (2011) (257)
- The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America (1992) (192)
- Ideology and Classic American Literature (1987) (136)
- The Office of the Scarlet Letter (1991) (107)
- Reconstructing American Literary History (1989) (84)
- The Problem of Ideology in American Literary History (1986) (69)
- Typology in Puritan New England: The Williams-Cotton Controversy Reassessed (1967) (38)
- Typology and early American literature (1975) (33)
- The American Puritan imagination : essays in revaluation (1977) (22)
- Puritans, Indians, and manifest destiny (1977) (17)
- The Typology of America's Mission (1978) (17)
- Hawthorne's A-Morality of Compromise (1988) (12)
- The A-Politics of Ambiguity in The Scarlet Letter (1988) (10)
- The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America. (1994) (10)
- Wharton, travel, and modernity (2005) (9)
- The Dispute of the New World (1994) (8)
- Horologicals to Chronometricals: The Rhetoric of the Jeremiad (1972) (8)
- BRITISH-AMERICAN BELLES LETTRES (1994) (7)
- The Limits of Enlightenment (1994) (7)
- New England Epic: Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1966) (6)
- The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 1. 1590–1820 (1996) (6)
- On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel (1999) (5)
- Investigations of an Americanist (1991) (5)
- Love and Strife in Kyd's Spanish Tragedy (1969) (5)
- Problems in the Writing of American Literary History: The Examples of Poetry and Ethnicity (2003) (4)
- Rhetoric as authority: Puritanism, the Bible, and the myth of America (1982) (4)
- Reason and Revivalism (1994) (3)
- Southern Daughter, Native Son: Hurston and Wright (2002) (3)
- The Shattered Synthesis: New England Puritanism Before the Great Awakening. (1975) (3)
- Empire As a Way of Life: An Essay on The Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along with a few Thoughts About an Alternative by Williams Appleman Williams (Oxford University Press; xii + 226 pp.; $14.95) (1980) (3)
- Britons (2017) (3)
- Milton's "Haemony": Knowledge and Belief (1970) (2)
- The Frontier and American Indians (1995) (2)
- Lucy and LightAn Interpretation of Wordsworth's Lucy Poems (1966) (2)
- Descendents of Perry Miller@@@Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer, 1663-1703@@@The American Jeremiad (1982) (2)
- Apocalypse Now: A Literature of Extremes (1999) (2)
- Emily Dickinson: the violence of the imagination (2004) (2)
- Beginnings of Professionalism (1995) (2)
- The Language of Salem Witchcraft (1994) (2)
- Facing the Extreme (2002) (2)
- Dramatic Irony in Notes from the Underground (1964) (2)
- “All the Past We Leave Behind”? Ole E. Rölvaag and the Immigrant Trilogy (2002) (2)
- THE WINTHROP VARIATION : A MODEL OF AMERICAN IDENTITY (1998) (2)
- The American literary field, 1860–1890 (2005) (2)
- Emerson, Individualism, and the Ambiguities of Dissent (1990) (2)
- Literature and the Repetition Compulsion (1968) (2)
- The Winthrop variation (2010) (1)
- Ethnic Themes, Modern Themes (2002) (1)
- The Fear of Feminization and The Logic of Modest Ambition (2002) (1)
- Mary Antin: Progressive Optimism against The Odds (2002) (1)
- Historical Contentions, Critical Assent@@@The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume 2, Prose Writing, 1820-1865 (1997) (1)
- Social death and the reconstruction of slavery (2005) (1)
- Deconstruction and Poststructuralism (1996) (1)
- Women’s Fiction: The Rewriting of History (1999) (1)
- Establishing National Narrative (1995) (1)
- The Natural Inhabitants (1994) (1)
- Magazines, Criticism, and Essays (1994) (1)
- Of Wise and Foolish Virgins: Hilda versus Miriam in Hawthorne's Marble Faun (1968) (1)
- Discovering "America": a cross-cultural perspective (2010) (1)
- The Ritual of American Consensus (1979) (1)
- Women's Fiction and the Literary Marketplace in the 1850s (1995) (1)
- Documentary Literature and The Disarming of Dissent (2002) (1)
- Pierre, or the Ambiguities of American Literary History (2014) (1)
- Letters of the Early Republic (1994) (1)
- Women and Realist authorship (2005) (1)
- Ethnic Lives and “Lifelets” (2002) (1)
- The Revision of Rowland Mallet (1969) (1)
- Essaying Early American Literature@@@The Cambridge History of American Literature, Volume One: 1590-1820 (1995) (1)
- Chesnutt and imperial spectacle (2005) (1)
- The Puritan Legacy@@@The American Puritan Imagination: Essays in Revaluation (1975) (1)
- Adams, James, Du Bois, and social thought (2005) (1)
- Three Writers of Early America (1994) (1)
- The Search for Shared Purpose: Struggles on the Left (2002) (1)
- The Armory show of 1913 and the Decline of Innocence (2002) (0)
- Anthologies and audience, genteel to modern (2003) (0)
- Appendix I: Biographies of Poets (1996) (0)
- The Hope of Reform (1995) (0)
- "Uninformed Consent" (1979) (0)
- Southerners, Agrarians, and New Critics the institutions of modern criticism (2003) (0)
- Finding the Revolution (1994) (0)
- Avatars and Manifestos (2002) (0)
- The Perils of Plenty, or How The Twenties Acquired a Paranoid Tilt (2002) (0)
- Introduction to “Criticism, Biography, and Popular Culture” (1982) (0)
- Intellectuals, cultural critics, men and women of letters (2003) (0)
- A New Negro (2002) (0)
- General Introduction to the Chinese Translation of The Cambridge History of American Literature (2006) (0)
- Conclusion: Academic Criticism and its Discontents (1996) (0)
- Traveling in America (1994) (0)
- Legacies of the Sixties (1999) (0)
- Hart Crane: tortured with history (2003) (0)
- Thomas Morton.Donald F. Connors (1971) (0)
- Conclusion: The Place of Poets, 1995 (1996) (0)
- The Red Badge of Compromise (2017) (0)
- Comparative Racism and the Logic of Naturalization (1999) (0)
- The Assault on Locke (1995) (0)
- Book Review:The Prophetic Melville: Experience, Transcendence, and Tragedy Rowland A. Sherrill (1980) (0)
- The Emergence of Academic Criticism (1996) (0)
- The New Fiction: From the Home Front to the 1950s (1999) (0)
- Preface: the claims of rhetoric (2004) (0)
- Notes on contributors (1996) (0)
- Freud, Marx, Hard-Boiled (2002) (0)
- Modernism, Ethnic Labeling, and The Quest for Wholeness: Jean Toomer’s New American Race (2002) (0)
- Response to William A. Clebsch, “;America's ‘Mythique’ as Redeemer Nation” (1979) (0)
- What is Enlightenment? Some American Answers (1994) (0)
- Hemingway Spoken Here (2002) (0)
- Confidence and Uncertainty in The Portrait of A Lady (2002) (0)
- Inventing American literature (2003) (0)
- The Southern Renaissance: Forms of Reaction and Innovation (2002) (0)
- The Problem of Ideology in a Time of Dissensus (2014) (0)
- On Metaphor and Reality: Preaching to Our Condition@@@The American Jeremiad (1980) (0)
- The “Jazz Age” and the “Lost Generation” Revisited (2002) (0)
- Frederick Jackson Turner in The Dream City (2002) (0)
- The A-Politics of Ambiguity (2017) (0)
- MIRIAM AS SHYLOCK: AN ECHO FROM SHAKESPEARE IN HAWTHORNE'S MARBLE FAUN (1969) (0)
- Nisei Sons and Daughters (1999) (0)
- Flannery O’Connor (1999) (0)
- One of the finest literary minds of her generation (2017) (0)
- Innocence and Revolt in the “Lyric Years”: 1900–1916 (2002) (0)
- The contracted heart (2005) (0)
- The Canon, the Academy, and Gender (1996) (0)
- The Antislavery Years (1995) (0)
- From Textuality to Materiality (1996) (0)
- Four Contemporaries and the Closing of the West (2002) (0)
- History and Novels / Novels and History: The Example of William Faulkner (2002) (0)
- The Place of Poetry in the Culture, 1945–1950 (1996) (0)
- The Philosophical Background to the Fable of Emerson's "American Scholar" (1967) (0)
- Democracy and the Novel: Popular Resistance to Classic American Writers. By Henry Nash Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. viii + 204 pp. Notes and index. $13.95.) (1979) (0)
- Personal Narrative and History (1994) (0)
- Cotton Mather and the Vision of America (2014) (0)
- The Papers of Empire (1994) (0)
- The Literature of Public Documents (1994) (0)
- John Greenleaf Whittier (2004) (0)
- A New Negro, A New Woman: Larsen, Fauset, Bonner (2002) (0)
- Gertrude Stein and “Negro Sunshine” (2002) (0)
- Langston Hughes: the color of modernism (2003) (0)
- Walt Whitman: the office of the poet (2004) (0)
- Novels of Slavery and Reconstruction (1999) (0)
- Jack London’s Career and Popular Discourse (2002) (0)
- The Paradoxes of Dissent (2017) (0)
- Puritan Persuasion: Magnalia Christi Americana, from Mather to Emerson@@@The Puritan Origins of the American Self. (1976) (0)
- Refusing to Go Straight (1999) (0)
- The Novel as Ironic Reflection (2002) (0)
- Novels of Race and Class (1999) (0)
- Cultural and Historical Studies (1996) (0)
- Was Modernism Antitotalitarian (2002) (0)
- Marianne Moore: a voracity of contemplation (2003) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (1983) (0)
- The Search for “Culture” as a Form of Commitment (2002) (0)
- Varieties of work (2005) (0)
- War as Metaphor: The Example of Ernest Hemingway (2002) (0)
- Remembering civil war (2005) (0)
- "Uninformed consent". (1979) (0)
- Disenchantment, Flight, and The Rise of Professionalism in an Age of Plenty (2002) (0)
- The Nationalizing of the New Criticism (1996) (0)
- Henry Roth: Ethnicity, Modernity, and Modernism (2002) (0)
- Fables of the Fetish (1999) (0)
- H. D.: a poet between worlds (2003) (0)
- Claiming the bible (2004) (0)
- Chicago’s “Dream City” (2002) (0)
- Changing America: A Changing Drama? (1999) (0)
- Howells, James, and the republic of letters (2005) (0)
- Crisis of Literary Narrative and Consolidation of National Narrative (1995) (0)
- Chronology 1940–1995 (1996) (0)
- The production of visibility (2005) (0)
- Genre in The Renaissance: Fisher, Schuyler, Cullen, White, Bontemps (2002) (0)
- The Establishment and the Movement (1995) (0)
- Class, Power, and Violence in a New Age (2002) (0)
- The Final Voyage (1994) (0)
- The Great War and The Fate of Writing (2002) (0)
- Gertrude Stein: the poet as master of repetition (2003) (0)
- Carlyle and the Beginnings of American Transcendentalism (1995) (0)
- From Marginal to Emergent (1999) (0)
- When the War Was Over: the Return of Detachment (2002) (0)
- Henry Adams’s Education and The Grammar of Progress (2002) (0)
- Colonial Puritan Rhetoric and the Discovery of American Identity (1975) (0)
- Marginality and Authority / Race, Gender, and Region (2002) (0)
- The Clock, The Salesman, and the Breast (2002) (0)
- The Play of Hope and Despair (2002) (0)
- Who is “American”? (2002) (0)
- William Carlos Williams: in search of a western dialect (2003) (0)
- Charles Brockden Brown (1994) (0)
- Making History@@@Hawthorne & History: Defacing It@@@Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tradition & Revolution@@@The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life@@@The Office of "The Scarlet Letter" (1993) (0)
- Chronology, 1940–1990 (1999) (0)
- Harlem as A State of Mind: Hughes, McKay, Toomer (2002) (0)
- Neoclassicism: comic and satiric verse (2004) (0)
- The End of Traditionalism (1999) (0)
- Robert Penn Warren (1999) (0)
- Three Responses: The Examples of Henry Miller, Djuna Barnes, and John Dos Passos (2002) (0)
- An American tragedy, or the promise of American life (2005) (0)
- Writing the Revolution (1994) (0)
- Residual Individualism and Hedged Commitments (2002) (0)
- War and the Novel: From World War II to Vietnam (1999) (0)
- The Literature of Slavery and African American Culture (1995) (0)
- “Dark - Skinned Selves Without Fear or Shame”: Thurman and Nugent (2002) (0)
- Grand Central Terminal (2002) (0)
- Native-American sacrifice in an age of progress (2005) (0)
- The Dream of a Christian Utopia (1994) (0)
- The Learned Doctor William Ames: Dutch Backgrounds of English and American Puritanism. By Keith L. Sprunger. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972. xi + 289 pp. Illustrations, charts, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $10.00.) (1973) (0)
- Appendix II: Biographies of Critics (1996) (0)
- The Irresistibleness of Great Literature: Reconstructing (2016) (0)
- Early narrative and lyric (2004) (0)
- Politics and American Criticism (1996) (0)
- Puritanism and the Wilderness: The Intellectual Significance of the New England Frontier, 1629-1700 Peter N. Carroll (1970) (0)
- A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel: Introduction (2002) (0)
- The Discovery of Poverty and the Return of Commitment (2002) (0)
- Preface: reverence and ambition (2004) (0)
- The Office of Scarlet Letter (2017) (0)
- The Ends of Puritan Rhetoric (2014) (0)
- Thomas Mann's “Heavenly Alchemy”: The Politics of The Holy Sinner (1966) (0)
- Letters and Social Aims (1995) (0)
- 9. Emerson’s the American Scholar, Paragraph 6 (1966) (0)
- Exploration and Empire (1995) (0)
- Lines of Expansion (2002) (0)
- Reconstruction and Revision@@@Reconstructing American Literary History (1987) (0)
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