Title: Trauma and transformation : the political progress of John Bunyan /
Authors: Camden, Vera J.; International John Bunyan Society. 2001 :
Publisher: Stanford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Bunyan, John, Political and social views Congresses.; Bunyan, John, Psychology Congresses.; Dissenters, Religious England History Congresses.; Christian literature, English History and criticism Congresses.; Great Britain Politics and government Congresses.; Great Britain Politics and government Congresses.
Abstract: "In 1649, the English people suffered a tremendous wound, a psychic lesion, as they both instigated and endured the killing of their king. John Bunyan came of age in the shadow of this rupture in the political, social, and religious order of the nation; his life and works follow the contours of the Civil War, the Restoration, and the Glorious Revolution." "Trauma and Transformation brings together eight leading early modern scholars who radically reassess the crises of authority, agency, and sexuality that have surrounded John Bunyan since he first began to preach and to write."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction : the political progress of John Bunyan / Vera J. Camden -- Dissociation and decapitation / Peter L. Rudnytsky -- A response to Peter Rudnytsky / David Norbrook -- Young man Bunyan / Vera J. Camden -- Bunyan's women, women's Bunyan / Margaret J.M. Ezell -- One soul versus one flesh : friendship, marriage, and the Puritan self / Thomas M. Luxon -- Bunyan's bawdy : sex and sexual wordplay in the writings of John Bunyan / Michael Davies -- Bunyan and the antinomians / Roger Pooley -- John Bunyan and the politics of remembrance / Sharon Achinstein.