Allegory and Enchantment

by Jason Crawford

What is modernity? Where are modernitys points of origin? Where are its boundaries? And what lies beyond those boundaries? Allegory and Enchantment explores these broad questions by considering the work of English writers at the threshold of modernity, and by considering, in particular, the cultural forms these writers want to leave behind. From the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, many English writers fashion themselves as engaged in breaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198788045
• ISBN13: 9780198788041
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"