John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing

Neil Keeble

ISBN 10: 390676852X / ISBN 13: 9783906768526

Published by Peter Lang, 2002

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 390676852X
• ISBN 13: 9783906768526
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 15D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 420 grams

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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.

About the Author

The Editor: N. H. Keeble is Professor of English Studies and Deputy Principal at the University of Stirling, Scotland.