No Adam in Eden | Literary Precedents
Although Metalious is not normally thought to be a novelist who wrote out of the mainstream of American literature, many of the themes contained in her books do exhibit concerns usually thought of as traditional. This is true of her last novel, No Adam in Eden, which by its very title announces an anti-Edenic theme. From its very beginnings the literary traditions of this country have played with the notions of America as having an Eden-like environment in which it might be possible to recapture an innocence long associated with humankind before the biblical expulsion from the...
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