A Fable for Critics

Abstract

In this chapter the author narrates her experiences in New England. Conforti makes clear New England's allure for him: some strangeness its charm, an oddly intimate sensation of unbelonging its passport. Intensifying Bercovitch's sense of unreality was the fact that the national fantasy had not been qualified, but rather coined and then disseminated out from the academy – from Harvard, no less. Consciousness of unfamiliarity has proven the greatest boon to the study of New England. Harvard's campus is a stop on national bus tours. The very municipal signage asserts a sort of canonicity. So many Harvard interiors breathed the New England past.

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