Table of Contents

General Editor's Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Allegory in the Old World - Allegory in Colonial New England - Captivity Narratives: Mary Rowlandson, Harriet Jacobs and the Rhetoric of Exceptionalism - Allegory and American Romanticism - Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter and the Sovereignty of the Self - The Fate of Allegory in the Twentieth Century - John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy and Post-Romantic Allegory - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index

About the Author

DEBORAH L. MADSEN