Cohesion and Dissent in America

by Joseph Alkana

Book Overview

This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitch's ideas about the relationship of American cultural institutions to voices of dissent have repeatedly posed challenges to pervasive assumptions about American culture and the methods used by cultural critics and literary historians. The contributors to this book respond to different aspects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791417174
• ISBN13: 9780791417171
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.