Sim, Stuart/David Walker
Bunyan and Authority

The Rhetoric of Dissent and the Legitimation Crisis in Seventeenth-Century England.

The authors explore Bunyan's complex, and often highly subversive attitude to institutional authority, as expressed in a writing career ranging from the pamphlets of the 1650s through to the fiction of the 1670s and 80s, against a backdrop of bitter conflict between incommensurable cultural narratives. This volume opens up lines of approach to an author central to the development of the nonconformist tradition in English life, and its provocative conclusions hold important implications for the study of seventeenth-century English literature, history, and religion. 239 Seiten, broschiert (Religions and Discourse; vol. 6/Peter Lang Verlag 2000) Mängelexemplar