Reinventing allegory
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Reinventing allegory
（Cambridge studies in romanticism, 22）
Cambridge University Press, 2010
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"First paperback edition 2010"--T.p.verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-339) and index
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Description
First published in 1997, Reinventing Allegory asks how and why allegory has survived as a literary mode from the late Renaissance to the postmodern present. Three chapters on Romanticism, including one on the painter J. M. W. Turner, present this era as the pivotal moment in allegory's modern survival. Other chapters describe larger historical and philosophical contexts, including classical rhetoric and Spenser, Milton and seventeenth-century rhetoric, Neoclassical distrust of allegory, and recent theory and metafiction. By using a series of key historical moments to define the special character of modern allegory, this study offers an important framework for assessing allegory's role in contemporary literary culture.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Allegory, phantasia and Spenser
- 3. 'Material phantasms' and 'allegorical fancies'
- 4. Allegorical persons
- 5. Romantic ambivalences I
- 6. Romantic ambivalences II
- 7. J. M. W. Turner's 'Allegoric shapes'
- 8. Allegory and Victorian realism
- 9. Conclusion.
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