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Tom Paulin: John Bunyan, 16 December 2004

Glimpses of Glory: John Bunyan and English Dissent 
by Richard Greaves.
Stanford, 693 pp., £57.50, August 2002, 0 8047 4530 7
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Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan 
by Michael Davies.
Oxford, 393 pp., £65, July 2002, 0 19 924240 2
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The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ 
by Isabel Hofmeyr.
Princeton, 320 pp., £41.95, January 2004, 0 691 11655 5
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... written language. These translations make The Pilgrim’s Progress part of world literature, as Isabel Hofmeyr’s study, The Portable Bunyan, shows. Where Bunyan scholarship is ‘almost obsessive’ in its focus on him as a national figure who heroically embodies 17th-century English Puritanism, his major work can be understood as part of a broader ...

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