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Allegory in America

From Puritanism to Postmodernism

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Deborah L. Madsen

    1. University of Leicester, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Literature and Religion (SLR)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 1-5

  3. Allegory in the Old World

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 6-37

  4. Allegory in Colonial New England

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 38-57

  5. Captivity Narratives: Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs and the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 58-81

  6. Allegory and American Romanticism

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 82-102

  7. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter and the Sovereignty of the Self

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 103-121

  8. The Fate of Allegory in the Twentieth Century

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 122-144

  9. John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy and Post-Romantic Allegory

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 145-166

  10. Conclusion

    • Deborah L. Madsen
    Pages 167-170

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-193
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Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a series of theoretical chapters the cultural function of allegory is discussed in relation to the mythology of American exceptionalism. Each theoretical chapter is followed by a chapter that analyzes a specific text or group of texts. Allegorical indeterminacy is seen to produce a literary tradition that both represents and subverts the ideals of American orthodoxy.

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  • University of Leicester, UK

    Deborah L. Madsen

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