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Pilgrim's Progress, Puritan Progress
Discourses and Contexts
Kathleen M. Swaim
Cloth978-0-252-01894-7
$47.00
| Pub Date: | 1993 |
| Pages: | 384 pages |
For at least the first two centuries following its publication, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress was among the most formative and beloved books England contributed to the Western tradition, second only to the English Bible in popularity and influence.
In this important study, Kathleen Swain recognizes Bunyan as a major Puritan cultural figure and Pilgrim's Progress as a multilayered locus of cultural, historical, and theological, as well as literary, systems. Her work maps shifts of cultural and theological emphasis as Christian's focus on the World and Protestant martyrdom in Part I (1678) gives way to Christiana's characteristic emphasis on good works and the material reality of the Church in the world in Part II (1684).
Subjects:
Medieval & Renaissance Studies / Literature, British & Irish / Religion
