The Persistence of Allegory Justin S. Vaughn the sugar-and-slave island of St

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African American religious thought

The social and relational nature of ideas about poison meant that the power struggles that emerged in poison cases

Bruce Boehrer explores the poet's fascination with alimentary matters and the ways in which such references describe Jonson's personal and cultural transformation

The Persistence of Allegory Justin S. Vaughn the sugar-and-slave island of StIn an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater, a shift attributable to the recovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the Renaissance. But if Aristotle's terminology was rapidly assimilated, Brown demonstrates