Table of Contents

Notes on contributors; List of abbreviations; Note on the text; Chronology; Introduction Anne Dunan-Page; Part I. John Bunyan in his Seventeenth-Century Context: 1. John Bunyan's literary life N. H. Keeble; 2. John Bunyan and Restoration literature Nigel Smith; 3. John Bunyan and the Bible W. R. Owens; 4. John Bunyan and the goodwives of Bedford: a psychoanalytic approach Vera J. Camden; Part II. John Bunyan's Major Works: 5. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: John Bunyan and spiritual autobiography Michael Davies; 6. The Pilgrim's Progress and the line of allegory Roger Pooley; 7. Bunyan and the early novel: The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Stuart Sim; 8. Militant religion and politics in The Holy War David Walker; 9. A Book for Boys and Girls: Or, Country Rhimes for Children: Bunyan and literature for children Shannon Murray; Part III. Readership and Reception: 10. Posthumous Bunyan: early lives and the development of the canon Anne Dunan-Page; 11. The Victorians and Bunyan's legacy Emma Mason; 12. Bunyan: colonial, postcolonial Isabel Hofmeyr; Further reading; Index.

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

About the Author

Anne Dunan-Page is Professor of Early Modern British Studies at the Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I.

Reviews

'these essays represent the latest thinking and scholarship in the world of Bunyan studies … let us be grateful for the appreciative and informative twenty-first century approaches evident in this Companion.' Language and Literature

'For Bunyan, the bible was the only book that really mattered, and all of his writings are permeated by its language - generally that of the King James bible, but also that of Tyndale and the Geneva Bible. Bunyan explains his own encounter with the Scriptures in his autobiographical writings.' International Review of Biblical Studies