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Keeble, Neil H. (ed.)
John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing
Series: Religions and Discourse - Volume 12
Year of Publication: 2002
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2002. 277 pp., 1 ill.
ISBN 978-3-906768-52-6 pb.
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Weight: 0.420 kg, 0.926 lbs
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Book synopsis
This collection of twelve essays adopts a variety of critical and theoretical approaches to explore the range of John Bunyan's fictional and non-fictional writing within the cultural, religious and political context of the later seventeenth century. Drawing on original research, they throw fresh light on Bunyan's relationship to such Puritan contemporaries as Richard Baxter and John Milton, on the material circumstances of the presentation and publication of Bunyan's texts, and on the cultural, literary and intellectual contexts of his writing. The result is a book which challenges received orthodoxies and opens up new lines of enquiry in the study of this key figure in our literary history.
Contents
Contents: Thomas N. Corns: Bunyan, Milton and the Diversity of Radical Protestant Writing - William Lamont: Bunyan and Baxter: Millennium and Magistrate - W.R. Owens: Reading the Bibliographical Codes: Bunyan's Publication in Folio - Tamsin Spargo: Bunyans Abounding, or the Names of the Author - Michael Davies: 'Stout & Valiant Champions for God': the Radical Reformation of Romance in The Pilgrim's Progress - Vera Camden: 'That of Esau': the Place of Hebrews xii.16,17 in Grace Abounding - Nancy Rosenfeld: 'So counterfeit holy would this Divel be': Debate and Disinformation as Satanic Strategies in Milton and Bunyan - Arlette Zinck: From Apocalypse to Prophecy: the Didactic Strategies of The Holy War - Roger Pooley: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman and Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Atheism - David Hawkes: Master of His Ways? Determinism and the Market in The Life and Death of Mr. Badman - Peter Marbais: The Tormented Body in The Life and Death of Mr. Badman - Stuart Sim: 'Transworld Depravity' and 'Invariant Assertions': John Bunyan's Possible Worlds.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
The Editor: N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Reviews
«'John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing' presents an excellent sampling of the recent interdisciplinary interest in Bunyan as a notable cultural figure standing at the intersection of seventeenth-century politics, literature, history, psychology, economics, and theology. [...] An intriguing collection of essays whose concerns are as broad as Bunyan's own, ... a worthy addition to any Bunyanist's library.» (Galen Johnson, The Recorder)
Series
Religions and Discourse. Vol. 12
General Editor: James Francis