Introduction

pp 1-10

Part I - John Bunyan in his seventeenth-century context

1 - John Bunyan’s literary life

pp 13-25

2 - John Bunyan and Restoration literature

pp 26-38

3 - John Bunyan and the Bible

pp 39-50

4 - John Bunyan and the goodwives of Bedford: a psychoanalytic approach

pp 51-64

Part II - John Bunyan’s major works

5 - Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners: John Bunyan and spiritual autobiography

pp 67-79

6 - The Pilgrim’s Progress and the line of allegory

pp 80-94

7 - Bunyan and the early novel: The Life and Death of Mr Badman

pp 95-106

8 - Militant religion and politics in The Holy War

pp 107-119

9 - A Book for Boys and Girls: Or, Country Rhimes for Children: Bunyan and literature for children

pp 120-134

Part III - Readership and reception

10 - Posthumous Bunyan: early lives and the development of the canon

pp 137-149

11 - The Victorians and Bunyan’s legacy

pp 150-161

12 - Bunyan: colonial, postcolonial

pp 162-176

Guide to further reading

pp 177-182

Index

pp 183-187