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Allegory in the Old World
This chapter sets out the models of European allegory from which the American tradition developed. These models formed the allegorical inheritance which was transported to the New World with the first Puritan ...
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Captivity Narratives: Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs and the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism
The image of escape from bondage to a land of freedom has provided a powerful and recurring figure in American literature, both theological and secular, from the colonial period into the nineteenth century and...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Rappaccini’s Daughter and the Sovereignty of the Self
In the preface to Rappaccini’s Daughter Hawthorne admits to ‘an inveterate love of allegory’.1 The whimsical tone of the preface should not obscure the irony of this confession. Allegory is blamed for the obscuri...
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John Barth’s Giles Goat-Boy and Post-Romantic Allegory
Paul de Man’s demystification of allegorical rhetoric has overtaken such theories as those proposed by Edwin Honig and Angus Fletcher and others, with the result that allegory is now treated largely in terms o...
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Introduction
The substance of this book has evolved over a number of years. Initially, I became interested in the poststructuralist reappraisal of allegory and the apparent potential of allegory to explain characteristics ...
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Allegory in Colonial New England
The claim of an Anglo-American cultural tradition to primacy in the New World was made at the earliest opportunity and in the harshest of terms. Among the most ubiquitous, if not the most violent, of these cla...
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Allegory and American Romanticism
Symbolism has come to represent the rhetorical opposite of allegory in much twentieth-century criticism of allegory.1 Where allegory simply points to a referent which stands outside itself, symbolism is able to e...
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The Fate of Allegory in the Twentieth Century
Recent theorizing about allegory has, inevitably, taken account of the Romantic legacy of symbolism and its accompanying aesthetic and epistemological assumptions. What we have seen in twentieth-century approa...
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Conclusion
I have attempted in the preceding chapters to show that there is in American literature a long and significant tradition of allegorical writing which has served a dual cultural function. Perhaps the longevity ...
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‘The Uttermost Parts of Their Maps’: Frontiers of Gender
According to Plutarch, some historiographers of his time dismissed ‘the uttermost parts of their maps,’ saying that these remote foreign regions were ‘unnavigable, rude, full of venomous beasts, Scythian ice, ...
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Textual Encodings in The Merchant of Venice
The presence and influence of the Amazons, Hippolyta and Emilia, and the assertive French female warriors, Joan and Margaret, generate a powerful sense of instability that endangers gender roles and threatens ...
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Habitat, Race, and Culture in Antony and Cleopatra
Although Antony and Cleopatra was entered in The Stationer’s Register on 20 May 1608, it did not appear in print until the 1623 folio.1 Scholars conjecture that the play was written and produced sometime between ...
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Conclusion
In his updating of Richard Eden’s The History of Trauayle (1577), Richard Willis registers the ever-increasing fascination of his age with foreign lands and cultures, including ‘newes of new founde landes, the su...
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Introduction
Things alien fascinate Shakespeare and reveal an interest in a multicultural and cosmopolitan environment of foreign commercial transactions and cross-cultural interactions. References to distant lands on worl...
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Joan of Arc, Margaret of Anjou, and the Instability of Gender
Saint Paul writes to the Galatians of a world where all difference has been erased: Tor as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bon...
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Textual Intersections: Titus Andronicus and Othello
On 13 May 1888, Princess Isabel, Regent of the Empire of Brazil, signed into law the emancipation of all slaves in the country, and masses of her subjects took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate. Tw...
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Cultural Re-encounters in The Tempest
In The Tempest, Shakespeare abides by the classical unities, and therefore the action of this play covers a period of about six hours; yet through various narratives, the play dilates its boundaries to encompass ...
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Modernism
The connections between modernism and psychoanalysis have been under critical scrutiny for some time, and are acknowledged as important to the formation of both. Psychoanalysis has declined as a clinical metho...
