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Sacvan Bercovitch

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Sacvan Bercovitch


Born
in Montreal, Québec, Canada
October 04, 1933

Died
December 09, 2014

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Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian literary and cultural critic who spent most of his life teaching and writing in the United States. He received his B.A. at Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University) in 1958, and his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University) in 1965. Bercovitch taught at Brandeis, the University of California-San Diego, Princeton, and at Columbia from 1970 to 1984. From 1984 until he retired in 2001 he taught at Harvard, where he held the Powell M. Cabot Professorship in American Literature.

Average rating: 4.04 · 615 ratings · 67 reviews · 45 distinct works
The American Jeremiad

3.76 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 1978 — 12 editions
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The Puritan Origins of the ...

3.65 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1975 — 9 editions
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The Rites of Assent: Transf...

4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions
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The Office of The Scarlet L...

3.33 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions
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The Cambridge History of Am...

4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
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Ideology and Classic Americ...

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2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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The Cambridge History of Am...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Reconstructing American Lit...

3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions
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The Cambridge History of Am...

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
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The Cambridge History of Am...

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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