Ebook: Allegory and enchantment : an early modern poetics
Author: Crawford Jason
- Tags: Allegory, English literature, Early modern 1500-1700, History and criticism
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
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Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's 'Piers Plowman', John Skelton's 'The Bowge of Courte', Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', and John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'.
Abstract: Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's 'Piers Plowman', John Skelton's 'The Bowge of Courte', Edmund Spenser's 'The Faerie Queene', and John Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'