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- catalog abstract ""As seventeenth-century nonconformist writer and preacher, John Bunyan discovered that the power of awakening words - words that both define and unite his ministerial and literary vocations - effected not only the conversion of individuals but also the gathering and consolidating of communities. Placed under the stress of the sectarian division that characterized the religious radicalism of the seventeenth century, and most markedly the suppression and persecution of nonconformity under the Restoration regime after 1660, Bunyan's language of community modulates through successive literary and political contexts as he seeks to mediate between his audience and the troubling polarities of the fictional words he creates and the actual world he confronts. Writing from the model and authority of scripture, Bunyan offers his readers fictional narratives and theological treatises that variously challenge, resist, invert, and imaginatively transform, the conditions under which they are written."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11981549.
- catalog contributor b11981550.
- catalog contributor b11981551.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1688.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social conditions 17th century.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""As seventeenth-century nonconformist writer and preacher, John Bunyan discovered that the power of awakening words - words that both define and unite his ministerial and literary vocations - effected not only the conversion of individuals but also the gathering and consolidating of communities. Placed under the stress of the sectarian division that characterized the religious radicalism of the seventeenth century, and most markedly the suppression and persecution of nonconformity under the Restoration regime after 1660, Bunyan's language of community modulates through successive literary and political contexts as he seeks to mediate between his audience and the troubling polarities of the fictional words he creates and the actual world he confronts. Writing from the model and authority of scripture, Bunyan offers his readers fictional narratives and theological treatises that variously challenge, resist, invert, and imaginatively transform, the conditions under which they are written."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-214) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Bunyan, the shadow of persecution, and the power of awakening words / Richard L. Greaves -- "Till one greater man/restore us ... ": restoration images in Bunyan and Milton / N.H. Keeble -- Bunyan and the cry of blood / John R. Knott -- Honey from the lion's carcass: Bunyan, allegory, and the Samsonian moment / Sharon Achinstein -- John Bunyan and English millenarianism / W.R. Owens -- Bunyan's exceeding maze: Grace abounding and the labyrinth of predestination / Michael Davies -- "For the best improvement of time": Pilgrim's progress and the liturgies of nonconformity / Ken Simpson -- "For then I should be a Ranter or a Quaker": John Bunyan and radical religion / T.L. Underwood -- Bunyan's sisters: "Unfolding of [their] secret things / Patricia Demers -- "Baffled, and befooled": misogyny in the work of John Bunyan / Aileen Ross -- "Christiana and her train": Bunyan and the alternative society in the second part of the Pilgrim's progress / Melissa D. Aaron -- Pilgrims' progresses: derivative texts and the seventeenth-century reader / Susan Cook.".
- catalog extent "223 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Awakening words.".
- catalog identifier "0874137020 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Awakening words.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Awakening words.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1660-1688.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social conditions 17th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "828/.407 21".
- catalog subject "Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Christian literature, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian literature, English Puritan authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and politics Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Communities in literature.".
- catalog subject "Dissenters, Religious England Political activity History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Dissenters, Religious Political activity England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Dissenters, Religious, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "PR3332 .A96 2000".
- catalog subject "Puritan movements in literature.".
- catalog subject "Radicalism Great Britain History 17th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Bunyan, the shadow of persecution, and the power of awakening words / Richard L. Greaves -- "Till one greater man/restore us ... ": restoration images in Bunyan and Milton / N.H. Keeble -- Bunyan and the cry of blood / John R. Knott -- Honey from the lion's carcass: Bunyan, allegory, and the Samsonian moment / Sharon Achinstein -- John Bunyan and English millenarianism / W.R. Owens -- Bunyan's exceeding maze: Grace abounding and the labyrinth of predestination / Michael Davies -- "For the best improvement of time": Pilgrim's progress and the liturgies of nonconformity / Ken Simpson -- "For then I should be a Ranter or a Quaker": John Bunyan and radical religion / T.L. Underwood -- Bunyan's sisters: "Unfolding of [their] secret things / Patricia Demers -- "Baffled, and befooled": misogyny in the work of John Bunyan / Aileen Ross -- "Christiana and her train": Bunyan and the alternative society in the second part of the Pilgrim's progress / Melissa D. Aaron -- Pilgrims' progresses: derivative texts and the seventeenth-century reader / Susan Cook.".
- catalog title "Awakening words : John Bunyan and the language of community / edited by David Gay, James G. Randall, and Arlette Zinck.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".