A Society Made by History
The Mythic Source of Identity in Canada
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5790034 |
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| Authors | Jennifer Reid (0000-0003-0853-2661, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-027-01-01 |
| OpenAlex | W2335764625 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Two decades ago Sacvan Bercovitch published The Puritan Origins of the American Self. The book, which was praised by his contemporaries, sought to demonstrate how "early New England rhetoric" and, in particular, Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, "provided a ready framework for inventing later secular [American] values-human perfectibility, technological progress, democracy, Christian socialism, or simply (and comprehensively) the American Way-into the mold of sacred teleology" (Bercovitch 1975, 136).1 Bercovitch thus engaged himself with the issue of the mythic origins and foundations of a particularly American notion of identity
Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Study and Philosophy of Religion
| Highly cited | No |
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