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American Evangelicalism from the Postwar Revival to
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“Schäfer’s ability to show how the Christian Right combines traditional moral convictions with
modern consumerism, as well as his careful discussion of continuities from postwar suburbaniza-
tion through post-1960s right-wing activism, makes his book a landmark contribution. This one
is a gem.”—Mark A. Noll, author of
God and Race in American Politics: A Short Hist
ory
Published December 2011
LC: 2011012634 BR 264 pp. 6 x 9 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 978-0-299-28524-1 Paper $29.95 s ISBN 978-0-299-28523-4 e-book $24.95 s
Anniversary edition, with a new preface
“Sacvan Bercovitch is a giant in American studies. This book
was his first classic work— and others followed. He stands
alongside Perry Miller and F. O. Matthiessen as indispens-
able figures in our understanding of American civilization.”
—Cornel West, Princeton University
When Sacvan Bercovitch’s
The American Jeremiad
first appeared in
1978, it was hailed as a landmark study of dissent and cultural forma-
tion in America, from the Puritans’ writings through the major
literary works of the antebellum era. For this long-awaited anniversary
edition, Bercovitch has written a deeply thoughtful and challenging
new preface that reflects on his classic study of the role of the political
sermon, or jeremiad, in America from a contemporary perspective,
while assessing developments in the field of American studies and the
culture at large.
“A deeply learned, revolutionary break with the dominant consensus
models from Perry Miller through F. O. Matthiessen,
The American
Jeremiad
rediscovered the prophetic core of American literature and
culture, and it demonstrated how fully our national identity has been
forged from conflicted narratives of self-examination and redemption.
The author’s brilliant and searching new preface brings this classic
work boldly into the twenty-first century.”—Eric J. Sundquist, Johns
Hopkins University
“For more than three decades, Sacvan Bercovitch’s work has both
charted the most promising path and posed the most profound
challenge to the academic project of radical political critique of U.S.
literature and culture. So long as ‘change we can believe in’ amounts,
by definition, to ‘forms of renewal that confirm the basic tenets of the
system,’ as Bercovitch deftly puts it in his new preface to this classic
study,
The American Jeremiad
will remain new and necessary.”
—Evan Carton, University of Texas at Austin
Sacvan Bercovitch
is the Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of Amer-
ican Literature at Harvard University. A fellow of the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences, he is a former president of the American
Studies Association and the general editor of the eight-volume
Cam-
bridge History of American Literature.
• 1978 cloth, UWP ISBN 978-0-299-07350-3
1980 paper, UWP ISBN 978-0-299-07354-1
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