“Perhaps,” wrote Ralph Ellison more than seventy years ago, “the zoot suit contains profound political meaning; perhaps the symmetrical frenzy of the Lind

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

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

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This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that