Allegory in America: From Puritanism to Postmodernism

by Deborah L. Madsen

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333646185
• ISBN13: 9780333646182
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"