Water colours by William Blake for Bunyan's 'The Pilgrim's Progress'

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer. It examines Bunyan’s...

This chapter examines Bunyan’s reputation as a prose stylist, his conceptions of style, and two important features of his writing—his use of dialogue and his control of pace—throug...

Focusing on Christian’s confrontation with Apollyon, this chapter provides an overview of John Bunyan’s first religious allegory and his most famous work of fiction: The Pilgrim’s ...

This chapter provides an overview of sixteen works left in manuscript at Bunyan’s death. After giving an account of the circumstances of their posthumous publication, the chapter d...

This chapter re-examines John Bunyan's religious allegories, and in particular The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), as works that complicate what might be thought of as novelistic habits...

This chapter introduces The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan. It reflects upon Bunyan’s ‘presence’ as a religious and historical figure and an author of major significance for litera...

This book advances the conversation about the presence, aesthetic appropriation, and re-interpretation of the foundational English author John Bunyan (1628–1688), whose works and l...

This chapter discusses John Bunyan in relation to five versions of allegory, in turn: personification; allegorical narratives, and Bunyan’s use of the allegorical framework of the ...