The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, it provides unparalleled scope and expertise, ranging from literary theory to religious history and from theology to post-colonial criticism.

The Handbook is structured in four sections. The first, 'Contexts', deals with the historical Bunyan in relation to various aspects of his life, background, and work as a Nonconformist: from basic facts of biography to the nature of his church at Bedford, his theology, and the religious and political cultures of seventeenth-century Dissent. Part 2 considers Bunyan's literary output: from his earliest printed tracts to his posthumously published works. Offering discrete chapters on Bunyan's major works—Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Pilgrim's Progress, Parts I and II (1678; 1684); The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682)—this section nevertheless covers Bunyan's oeuvre in its entirety: controversial and pastoral, narrative and poetic. Section 3, 'Directions in Criticism', engages with Bunyan in literary critical terms, focusing on his employment of form and language and on theoretical approaches to his writings: from psychoanalytic to post-secular criticism. Section 4, 'Journeys', tackles some of the ways in which Bunyan's works, and especially The Pilgrim's Progress, have travelled throughout the world since the late seventeenth century, assessing Bunyan's place within key literary periods and their distinctive developments: from the eighteenth-century novel to the writing of 'empire.'
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The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, it provides unparalleled scope and expertise, ranging from literary theory to religious history and from theology to post-colonial criticism.

The Handbook is structured in four sections. The first, 'Contexts', deals with the historical Bunyan in relation to various aspects of his life, background, and work as a Nonconformist: from basic facts of biography to the nature of his church at Bedford, his theology, and the religious and political cultures of seventeenth-century Dissent. Part 2 considers Bunyan's literary output: from his earliest printed tracts to his posthumously published works. Offering discrete chapters on Bunyan's major works—Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Pilgrim's Progress, Parts I and II (1678; 1684); The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682)—this section nevertheless covers Bunyan's oeuvre in its entirety: controversial and pastoral, narrative and poetic. Section 3, 'Directions in Criticism', engages with Bunyan in literary critical terms, focusing on his employment of form and language and on theoretical approaches to his writings: from psychoanalytic to post-secular criticism. Section 4, 'Journeys', tackles some of the ways in which Bunyan's works, and especially The Pilgrim's Progress, have travelled throughout the world since the late seventeenth century, assessing Bunyan's place within key literary periods and their distinctive developments: from the eighteenth-century novel to the writing of 'empire.'
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The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the critical reception of his writings, in particular his allegorical narrative, The Pilgrim's Progress. Interdisciplinary and comprehensive, it provides unparalleled scope and expertise, ranging from literary theory to religious history and from theology to post-colonial criticism.

The Handbook is structured in four sections. The first, 'Contexts', deals with the historical Bunyan in relation to various aspects of his life, background, and work as a Nonconformist: from basic facts of biography to the nature of his church at Bedford, his theology, and the religious and political cultures of seventeenth-century Dissent. Part 2 considers Bunyan's literary output: from his earliest printed tracts to his posthumously published works. Offering discrete chapters on Bunyan's major works—Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), The Pilgrim's Progress, Parts I and II (1678; 1684); The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), and The Holy War (1682)—this section nevertheless covers Bunyan's oeuvre in its entirety: controversial and pastoral, narrative and poetic. Section 3, 'Directions in Criticism', engages with Bunyan in literary critical terms, focusing on his employment of form and language and on theoretical approaches to his writings: from psychoanalytic to post-secular criticism. Section 4, 'Journeys', tackles some of the ways in which Bunyan's works, and especially The Pilgrim's Progress, have travelled throughout the world since the late seventeenth century, assessing Bunyan's place within key literary periods and their distinctive developments: from the eighteenth-century novel to the writing of 'empire.'

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ISBN-13: 9780199581306
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 09/26/2018
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 734
Product dimensions: 9.80(w) x 6.80(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Davies, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Liverpool,W. R. Owens, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Open University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire

Michael Davies is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool. Among his publications is Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan (2002). He is currently preparing a critical edition of The Bunyan Church Book, 1656-1710 for Oxford University Press.



W. R. Owens is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the Open University, and Visiting Professor at the University of Bedfordshire. His publications include volumes XII and XIII of The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan (1994), editions of Grace Abounding (1987) and The Pilgrim's Progress (2003), The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe (co-author, 1988), A Critical Bibliography of Daniel Defoe (co-author, 1998), The Works of Daniel Defoe (joint General Editor, 44 volumes, 2000-2009), and an edition of The Gospels: Authorized King James Version (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Bunyan's Presence, Michael DaviesPART I: CONTEXTS1. Bunyan's Life, Bunyan's Lives, Michael A. Mullett2. Bunyan's England: The Trials and Triumphs of Restoration Dissent, John Coffey3. Bunyan and the Bedford Congregation, Anne Dunan-Page4 Bunyan's Theology and Religious Context, Dewey D. Wallace, Jr.5. Bunyan and the Word, Alison Searle6. Bunyan's Reading, Roger Pooley7. Bunyan and Gender, Margaret J. M. Ezell8. 'Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate': Bunyan and the Writing of Dissent, N. H. Keeble9. Bunyan's Partners in Print, Kathleen LynchPART II: WORKS10. Early Works: Bunyan in the 1650s, David Walker11. Bunyan in Prison: Writings from the 1660s, David Gay12. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), Nigel Smith13. 'The Desired Countrey': Bunyan's Writings on the Church in the 1670s, Ken Simpson14. Chasing Apollyon's Tale: The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), Michael Davies15. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680), Katsuhiro Engetsu16. The Holy War (1682), Nancy Rosenfeld17. Piety and Radicalism: Bunyan's Writings of the 1680s, Arlette Zinck18. The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II (1684), Margaret Olofson Thickstun19. 'Truth in Meeter': Bunyan's Poetry and Dissenting Poetics, Elizabeth Clarke20. Bunyan's Posthumously Published Works, W. R. OwensPART III: DIRECTIONS IN CRITICISM21. Bunyan, Emblem, and Allegory, Jeremy Tambling22. Bunyan and Romance, Nick Davis23. The Prose Style of John Bunyan, Mary Ann Lund24. The Language of The Pilgrim's Progress, Julie Coleman25. 'Nor do thou go to work without my Key': Reading Bunyan Out to the Edges, Maxine Hancock26. Bunyan and the Historians, Tamsin Spargo27. Bunyan Unbound: Prison and the Place of Creativity, Vera J. Camden28. Bunyan, Poststructuralism, and Postmodernism, Stuart Sim29. Bunyan, Theory, and Theology: A Case for Postsecular Criticism, Lori BranchPART IV: JOURNEYS30. Bunyan and the Early Novel, Cynthia Wall31. The Pilgrim's Progress in the Evangelical Revival, Isabel Rivers32. Bunyan and the Romantics, Jonathan Shears33. Bunyan and the Victorians, Vincent Newey34. Bunyan and America, Joel D. Rasmussen35. Bunyan, Class, and Englishness, Gary Day36. Wayfaring Images: The Pilgrim's Progress's Pictorial Journey through Time, Nathalie Colle37. Bunyan for Children, Shannon Murray38. Bunyan and Empire, Sylvia Brown
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