Author Wen Stephenson on Harvard Scholar Sacvan Bercovitch:
““American writers have tended to see themselves as outcasts and isolates, prophets crying in the wilderness. So they have been, as a rule: American Jeremiahs, simultaneously lamenting a declension and celebrating a national dream.” We Americans, the jeremiad proclaims, have failed to live up to our founding principles, betrayed our sacred covenant as history’s (or God’s) chosen nation, and must rededicate ourselves to our ideals, reclaim our founding promise.”
Reads & References
- Stephenson, NYT (2010)
- Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad (1978)
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