Reformation Heritage Books

Description  This volume of essays is designed to be of interest to students not only of Bunyan, but of the history, religion and literature of the seventeenth century. Unlike most previous studies of Bunyan, which have focused almost exclusively on the Pilgrim's Progress, this book takes a wider, interdisciplinary approach, dealing with many of Bunyan's other writings and the historical circumstances in which he lived and wrote. There are chapters on such topics as Bunyan's contemporary reputation, his response to the state repression of dissent, his attitude to women, his millenarian beliefs, the role of paradoxy in his theology and fiction, his relation to popular culture, and the significance of his auto biographical writings in the light of recent theories about the emergence of the 'self' and self-awareness in the early modern period.

Author  Anne Laurence, W.R Owens and Stuart Sim eds.