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...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2007 American Exceptionalism, the Jeremiad, and the Frontier: From the Puritans to the Neo-Con-Men William V. Spanos In short, with all sorts of cavilers, it was best [according...

... of the land occupied by empire as “terra nullius.” This essay retrieves Said's “Canaanite” reading of Michael Waltzer's Exodus and Revolution , in which the latter invokes, above all, the English Puritan revolution to demonstrate the emancipatory politics of the Old Testament story and reconstellates...

... / Spring 2005 sense of guilt. Hawthorne’s Puritan ancestors discerned the actual source of his feelings of worthlessness as attaching to the vocation he had aban- doned when he agreed to become the surveyor of the Port of Salem. When two of these ‘‘stern and black-browed’’ revenants unexpectedly...

...,or middle way, for the Puritan middle classOnly the middle class, Milton seems to say, can steer a chaste course between the debaucheries of the aristocracy and those of the rural laboring class 23 Milton’s use...

... Heideggerian reading of Sacvan Bercovitch, the new post-­9/11 Puritans of the security society are in the process of staging “the anxiety-provoking­ awesomeness of the wilderness as a spec- tacular threat to the ‘security’ of the covenantal people,” re-­presenting the “‘mystery’ of the world’s...

... with, productivism has often been seen as the ethics of modernity.1 The Puritan contempt for pleasure and idleness was notori- ous (“Idle hands are the Devil’s workshop and it made Max Weber define capitalism as a specific culture of diligence, based in worldly asceticism and frugality. Karl Marx gave...

... that I have not solved, but I’m genuinely interested in it. I would like to propose a way forward, beginning with Erich Auer- bach’s Mimesis, which fortunes are taken up, I believe, in Sacvan Berco- vitch’s Puritan Origins of the American Self. Published three decades ago, Bercovitch’s text...

... American, published his dazzling Begin- nings, an enduring monument of the theory boom, and Sacvan Bercovitch (b. 1933), the Canadian American, published his dazzling Puritan Origins of the American Self, which culminated Perry Miller’s recovery of Puritanism as the ground for American literature...

... the conditions for the English Civil War of 1642–1651. Most eighteenth-century­ Americans counted themselves part of the Dissenting tradition, and they came to see their own quest for independence from the crown as continuing the Reformation and as carrying forward the earlier Puritan Revolution...

... on the still powerful Puritan Spirit in antebellum America. The Silence is, in fact, the Nothing that this secularized Puritan spirit would preclude or include or occlude. More specifically, it is the ontological and sociopolitical condi- tion visvis speech of having been bereft of the logos by emergency...

... foreign policy depends for its practice.2 This is the founding principle, whose origins lie in the Puritans’ divinely ordained ‘‘errand in the [New World] wilderness which not only proclaimed America’s qualitative differ...

..., and asserted that only a grammatical and philological ap- proach, like their own, could yield true meanings In our own increasingly orthodox Puritanical country, you can see that we, too, in America, now and as it was in the seventies, would not want people such as Reuchlin or de Man around, people who do...

... of Melville’s Moby-­Dick “against the grain” of traditional scholarship to reveal its exposure of the Puritan roots of such vio- lence and its uncanny prescience of that legacy for the future. The books in Spanos’s tetralogy—Heidegger­ and Criticism: Retrieving the Cultural Poli- tics of Destruction...

... of a man and a writer who was entirely himself and who loved his fellow man.” And on Emily Dickinson (from volume 3): “There is no better example of Puritanism.” She remains a “charmingly elfish mystery.” In volume 2, there are shortish chapters on Thoreau, Hawthorne, Long...

... that they constitute irreversibly de- cisive critiques of the myth of American exceptionalism. They bear witness to the fact that the idea of America that originates with the Puritans’ onto- logically ordained ‘‘errand in the [‘New World’] wilderness’’ and reaches its secularized fulfillment in the ontologically...

... . From Another World: The Autobiography of Louis Untermeyer . New York : Harcourt, Brace . Waggoner Hyatt H. (1968) 1984 . American Poets from the Puritans to the Present . Rev. ed. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press . Wellburn Ronald G. 1983 . American Jazz...

... puritan, and he came from a prominent Whig family and himself spoke in the accents of a radicalized Whiggery, the kind of idiom that was cen- tral to revolutionary politics in North America. A neo-­Puritan and Common- wealth man: to speak crudely, Cowper can easily seem like an American figure...

... the Inquisitors General against heretical depravity throughout the entire Poetry Commonwealth. In “Recantorium,” a long retraction modeled on Galileo's before the Inquisition, but also reminiscent of the puritan confession and the Moscow trials, Bernstein performs a jubilant penance, disavowing his poetics as he...

... century by a couple of fire-breathing evangelical ministers ferociously committed to the Puritan work ethic. He was, rather, the Edward Said of Orientalism, the Palestinian/American who, through the sheer force of his humane intelligence and awesome historical sense, was leading both a re- sistant...

... Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, motivated to large degree by reflection on Max Weber’s ‘‘iron cage 47 adapted a rare term from Puritan theological discourse to name those who don’t count, who are outside the scheme: the ‘‘preterite those whom God had passed over. Ellison, like Pyn- chon, understands...