Sacvan Bercovitch
Sacvan Bercovitch · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1933, Montreal, Canada — 2014, Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Canada · United States
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Sacvan Bercovitch was a Canadian-born literary and cultural critic who reshaped the field of American studies, arguing in works like The American Jeremiad and The Rites of Assent that the rhetoric of American ideals functioned to contain dissent within consensus. He taught at Columbia and then Harvard. He was born into a Yiddish-speaking, radical Jewish immigrant family, his given name a portmanteau of Sacco and Vanzetti.
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Literary & drama critic
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