Uses and Abuses: John Bunyan, Philip Stubbes, and the Ambiguity of Literary Influence

Lynch postulates that John Bunyan, the tinker, Reformed preacher and author of The Pilgrim's Progress, drew upon The Anatomie of Abuses by the Elizabethan author Philip Stubbes. She rationalizes that it is a debt not only unacknowledged by Bunyan himself, but unrecognized by subsequent generati...

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Published inThe Seventeenth century Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 283 - 304
Main Author LYNCH, BETH
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Taylor & Francis Group 01.09.2007
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
English literature
God
Influence
Literary criticism
Stubbes, Phillip
Writers
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Summary:Lynch postulates that John Bunyan, the tinker, Reformed preacher and author of The Pilgrim's Progress, drew upon The Anatomie of Abuses by the Elizabethan author Philip Stubbes. She rationalizes that it is a debt not only unacknowledged by Bunyan himself, but unrecognized by subsequent generations of readers and scholars. Building upon the intuition of formal and rhetorical correspondences between two sets of texts, Lynch finds out whether Bunyan, despite his claims to the most limited and selective reading, was, or might have been, directly familiar with Stubbes's Anatomie, a popular, quasi-Reformed critique of theaters and other perceived excesses which was first published in 1583.
ISSN:0268-117X
2050-4616
DOI:10.1080/0268117X.2007.10555596