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(1933-2014) Critic. Sacvan Bercovitch was born in Montreal, Canada, and died in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Sacvan Bercovitch

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Dr. Bercovitch studied briefly at the New School for Social Research.

1933

BIRTH

Sacvan Bercovitch was born in Montreal, Canada, on October 4, 1933.

1970

OTHER

Dr. Bercovitch taught at Columbia University from 1970 until 1983.

1975

LITWORK

The Puritan Origins of the American Self
New Haven and London: Yale University Press
0300017545 / 978-0300017540
Nonfiction.

1978

LITWORK

The American Jeremiad
Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press
0299073505 / 978-0299073503
Nonfiction.

1991

LITWORK

The Office of 'The Scarlet Letter'
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press
0-8018-4584-X
Nonfiction.

1993

LITWORK

The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America
New York and London: Routledge
0-415-90015-8
Nonfiction.

2014

DEATH

Sacvan Bercovitch died at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on December 9, 2014.

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