A Turbulent Seditious And Factious People

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784786878

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A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People by Christopher Hill Pdf

John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world. In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan's significance as a preacher-a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain's most influential writers.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015014161379

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A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People by Christopher Hill Pdf

This highly acclaimed biography explores how John Bunyan's writings and personality were influenced by the turbulent times in which he lived. The book examines the reasons why The Pilgrim's Progress holds a unique place in popular literature, and sheds new light on the meaning it held for its original readers. Christopher Hill believes that we should not view Bunyan's works as timeless literary artefacts, but take account of the social, political, and religious forces that acted upon their author. He explores the impact on Bunyan of his humble origins, the revolution of the 1640s and his experience in the Parlimentary army, his twelve-year imprisonment, and his difficulties in writing under censorship and persecution. The Pilgrim's Progress, which soon became the world's best-seller, is shown to derive from Bunyan's personal experience of defeat. - back cover.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:695063548

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A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People by Christopher Hill Pdf

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784786885

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A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People by Christopher Hill Pdf

Preacher, soldier, rebel: Who was the author of Pilgrim’s Progress, one of the most influential books ever written? John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of English literature. Translated into more than 200 languages, it once rivalled the Bible in popularity in the English-speaking world. In A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People, Christopher Hill reassesses the well-known author to recover Bunyan’s significance as a preacher—a man whose nonconformist religion led him into conflict with the Quakers and resulted in long years of imprisonment. It was while confined that he wrote his most famous works. This classic biography by one of the leading historians of the seventeenth century offers an extraordinary insight into one of Britain’s most influential writers.

Author : Rebecca Lemon,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts,Christopher Rowland
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 959 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118241158

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The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature by Rebecca Lemon,Emma Mason,Jonathan Roberts,Christopher Rowland Pdf

This Companion explores the Bible's role and influence on individual writers, whilst tracing the key developments of Biblical themes and literary theory through the ages. An ambitious overview of the Bible's impact on English literature – as arguably the most powerful work of literature in history – from the medieval period through to the twentieth-century Includes introductory sections to each period giving background information about the Bible as a source text in English literature, and placing writers in their historical context Draws on examples from medieval, early-modern, eighteenth-century and Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist literature Includes many 'secular' or 'anti-clerical' writers alongside their 'Christian' contemporaries, revealing how the Bible's text shifts and changes in the writing of each author who reads and studies it

Author : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0877455775

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Virginia Woolf's Renaissance by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Explores Virginia Woolf's affinity with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn as writer and reader through the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. The author, a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, critiques Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers--Montaigne, Donne, Pepys and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de Sevigne. She considers the forms traditionally associated with women, such as the essay, the personal letter and diary, in the context of printing, the body, and the relationship between amateurs and professionals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Tamsin Spargo
Publisher : Writers and Their Work (Paperb
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780746309827

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John Bunyan by Tamsin Spargo Pdf

John Bunyan is an accessible introduction to the life, times, writings and significance of the seventeenth-century nonconformist whose Pilgrim's Progress was the first international best-seller. It tracks a story from persecution to persuasion that took a poor English tinker's words into the world's libraries.

Author : Roger Pooley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317901570

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English Prose of the Seventeenth Century 1590-1700 by Roger Pooley Pdf

This is the first book-length history of the range of seventeenth-century English prose writing. Roger Pooley's study begins with narrative, ranging from the fiction of Bunyan and Aphra Behn to the biographical and autobiographical work of Aubrey and Pepys. Further sections consider religious prose from the hugely influential Authorised Version to Donne's sermons, the political writing of figures as diverse as Milton, Hobbes, Locke and Marvell, cornucopian texts and the writings of the new scientists from Bacon to Newton. At a time when the boundaries of the `canon' are being increasingly revised, this is not only a major survey of a series of great works of literature, but also a fascinating social history and a guide to understanding the literature of the period as a whole.

Author : International John Bunyan Society. Conference
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3039107208

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Reception, Appropriation, Recollection by International John Bunyan Society. Conference Pdf

"Papers delivered at the fourth triennial conference of the International John Bunyan Society held at Bedford, 1-5 September 2004"--Acknowledgements.

Author : Tamsin Spargo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780429774065

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The Writing of John Bunyan by Tamsin Spargo Pdf

First published in 1997, this volume is an attempt to prise open the name of John Bunyan. It aims to examine the operations of that name, to explore the discursive techniques which produced the figure of this author, both in the seventeenth century and later, and to identify the different meanings which have been ascribed to it in the history of its production. It may be read as a ‘Dear John’ letter to the author, or as an exercise in cultural materialism which examines the production and reproduction of a particular figure of authority, the author, within specific cultural formations at different historical moments.

Author : Ian Birch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498209021

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To Follow the Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth by Ian Birch Pdf

This book explores the doctrine of the church among English Calvinistic Baptists between 1640 and 1660. It examines the emergence of Calvinistic Baptists against the background of the demise of the Episcopal Church of England, the establishment by Act of Parliament of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and the attempted foundation of a Presbyterian Church of England. Ecclesiology was one of the most important doctrines under consideration in this phase of English history, and this book is a contribution to understanding alternative forms of ecclesiology outside of the mainstream National Church settlement. It argues that the development of Calvinistic Baptist ecclesiology was a natural development of one stream of Puritan theology, the tradition associated with Robert Brown, and the English separatist movement. This tradition was refined and made experimental in the work of Henry Jacob, who founded a congregation in London in 1616 from which Calvinistic Baptists emerged. Central to Jacob's ideology was the belief that a rightly ordered church acknowledged Christ as King over his people. The christological priority of early Calvinistic Baptist ecclesiology will constitute the primary contribution of this study to the investigation of dissenting theology in the period.

Author : Carl R. Trueman
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781433520808

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Histories and Fallacies by Carl R. Trueman Pdf

Recent years have brought about a crisis of confidence in the historical profession, leading increasing numbers of readers to ask the question: “How can I know that the stories told by a historian are reliable?” Histories and Fallacies is a primer for those seeking guidance through conceptual and methodological problems in the discipline of history. Historian Carl Trueman presents a series of classic historical problems as a way to examine what history is, what it means, and how it can be told and understood. Each chapter in Histories and Fallacies gives an account of a particular problem, examines a classic example of that problem, and then suggests a solution or approach that will bear fruit. Readers who come to understand the question of objectivity through an examination of Holocaust denial or interpretive frameworks through Marxism will not just be learning theory but will already be practicing fruitful approaches to history. Histories and Fallacies guides both readers and writers of history away from dead ends and methodological mistakes, and into a fresh confidence in the productive nature of the historical task.

Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351902564

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Romancing Decay by Michael St John Pdf

This collection of fifteen essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay. Some of the essays draw parallels between modernist and postmodernist notions of decadence. Similarities are detected between fin de siècle decadence at the end of the nineteenth century (which reaches its apotheosis in the character of Eugene Wrayburn in Our Mutual Friend) and depictions of decadence in our own age as we enter the new millennium.

Author : Christopher Hill
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141926322

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The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill Pdf

'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher Education In 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of such radical groups as the Diggers, the Ranters, the Levellers and others, and the social and emotional impulses that gave rise to them. The relations between rich and poor classes, the part played by wandering 'masterless' men, the outbursts of sexual freedom, the great imaginative creations of Milton and Bunyan - these and many other elements build up into a marvellously detailed and coherent portrait of this strange, sudden effusion of revolutionary beliefs. 'Established the concept of an "English Revolution" every bit as significant and potentially as radical as its French and Russian equivalents' Daily Telegraph 'Brilliant ... marvellous erudition and sympathy' David Caute, New Statesman 'This book will outlive our time and will stand as a notable monument to the man, the committed radical scholar, and one of the finest historians of the age' The Times Literary Supplement 'The dean and paragon of English historians' E.P. Thompson

Author : Cecile M. Jagodzinski
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0813918391

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Privacy and Print by Cecile M. Jagodzinski Pdf

Proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right and the core of individuality is connected in a complex way with the easy availability of printed books and the spread of the ability to read that emerged during the period. Looks at representations of reading and readers, especially women, in devotional books, conversion narratives, personal letters, drama, and the novel. Also explores how privacy became gendered in the early modern periodAnnotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR