The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America

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Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Music of America	p. 1
The Ritual of Consensus	p. 29
The Ends of Puritan Rhetoric	p. 68
Cotton Mather and the Vision of America	p. 90
The Typology of Mission, from Edwards to Independence	p. 147
Continuing Revolution: George Bancroft and the Myth of Process	p. 168
The Return of Hester Prynne	p. 194
Pierre, or the Ambiguities of American Literary History	p. 246
Emerson, Individualism, and Liberal Dissent	p. 307
The Problem of Ideology in a Time of Dissensus	p. 353
Notes	p. 377
Index	p. 411
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