Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan

This Collection Brings Together Eight Early Modern Scholars Who Radically Reassess The Crises Of Authority, Agency, And Sexuality That Have Surrounded Bunyan Since He First Began To Preach And To Write. In His Anguished, Self-conscious Pursuit Of Salvation, Bunyan Augurs The Dilemmas Of Modernity, And At The Same Time, Vigorously Espouses Dissent And Liberty. The Essays In This Collection Examine The Societal And Psychological Fault Lines In The Early Modern Culture That Bunyan Himself Epitomises. 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. Edited By Vera J. Camden. Includes Essays Originally Delivered At The Third Triennial Conference Of The International John Bunyan Society Held In October, 2001, In Cleveland And Kent, Ohio. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [153]-176) And Index. English