The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan

by Edited by Anne Dunan-Page

• ISBN13: 9780521733083
• ISBN10: 0521733081
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A comprehensive introduction to Bunyan's life and works, examining their place in the broader context of seventeenth-century history and literature.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Notes on the text	p. x
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Chronology	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
John Bunyan in his Seventeenth-Century Context
John Bunyan's literary life	p. 13
John Bunyan and Restoration literature	p. 26
John Bunyan and the Bible	p. 39
John Bunyan and the goodwives of Bedford: a psychoanalytic approach	p. 51
John Bunyan's Major Works
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: John Bunyan and spiritual autobiography	p. 67
The Pilgrim's Progress and the line of allegory	p. 80
Bunyan and the early novel: The Life and Death of Mr Badman	p. 95
Militant religion and politics in The Holy War	p. 107
A Book for Boys and Girls: Or, Country Rhimes for Children: Bunyan and literature for children	p. 120
Readership and Reception
Posthumous Bunyan: early lives and the development of the canon	p. 137
The Victorians and Bunyan's legacy	p. 150
Bunyan: colonial, postcolonial	p. 162
Guide to further reading	p. 177
Index	p. 183
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