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Cohesion and Dissent in America (Suny Series in American Literature),Used
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Product Description This book addresses one of the most important theories to arise in recent American literary scholarship. Developed over the past two decades, Sacvan Bercovitchs 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 of Bercovitchs ideas by exploring a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including American, Chicano, Amerindian, AfricanAmerican, AsianAmerican, feminist, comparatist, philosophical, legal, and critical studies. In addition to essays that focus on the theoretical backgrounds and implications of Bercovitchs concepts, this book interrogates the uses of those concepts in the study of American literatures. Works by a variety of American writers are analyzed: the Colonial poet Phillis Wheatly; nineteenthcentury writers Hawthorne and Melville; modernists Pound and Eliot; contemporary authors John Barth, Norman Mailer, Arturo Islas, and John Yau; and philosophers William James and Stanley Cavell. This book offers new directions to students of American culture, while it participates in the ongoing reassessment of American cultural and literary scholarship. Review The range of topics represented in the book suggests both the power and problems of Bercovitchs formulation. The final section in particular presents the possibilities offered by Bercovitchs idea of consensus and dissent in understanding the current debate over canon issues. Bercovitchs essay itself is a fine and honest accounting of his ideas that opens room for critique. Daniel Reagan, St. Anselm College About the Author Carol Colatrella is Assistant Professor in the Department of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology.Joseph Alkana is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Miami, Florida.
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