John Bunyan’s Imaginary Writings in Context

Name: John Bunyan’s Imaginary Writings in Context
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Within the last half-century, early scholarly approaches and analysis of John Bunyan\u2019s Pilgrim\u2019s Progress have seen siginificant advances in mandating and enabling a more contextualized view of Bunyan\u2019s oeuvre. Utilizing this fresh examination of context, John Bunyan\u2019s Imaginary Writings in Context explores Bunyan\u2019s writings in a double context: his fictional works vis-\u00E0-vis his own non-fictional writings, and his fictional writings in the context of written materials by other authors \u2013 books, tracts, spiritual biographies, and poems available to Bunyan. This volumepresents these recent developments by blurring the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction, between literature and history, and in the case of Bunyan, between imaginative literatures in fiction and theological writing. Moreover, this book aims to delineate the imaginary world underlying Bunyan\u2019s fictional writings by viewing Bunyan\u2019s own fictional works in tandem with his non.