Allegory in America surveys the history of American allegorical writing from the Puritans through the period of American romanticism to postmodernism. In a seri

"The Language of Allegory examines a body of literature not often treated as a unified genre. Reading a number of texts that are traditionally characterized as

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction and Performance explores how allegory

This book argues that popular feminist fiction provided a key means by which American culture narrated and negotiated the perceived breakdown of American progre