The Bunyan Session at the Fifth International Milton Symposium

In his paper entitled "Till one greater man/ Restore Us": Restoration Images in Milton and Bunyan,' presented to the Bunyan Session at the Fifth International Milton Symposium in Bangor, Wales (July 9-14, 1995), N.H. Keeble remarked upon the social and cultural distance between Milton...

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Published inBunyan studies Vol. 6; no. 6; p. 85
Main Author Gay, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bunyan Studies 01.01.1995
Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
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Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Bunyan, John (1628-88)
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Summary:In his paper entitled "Till one greater man/ Restore Us": Restoration Images in Milton and Bunyan,' presented to the Bunyan Session at the Fifth International Milton Symposium in Bangor, Wales (July 9-14, 1995), N.H. Keeble remarked upon the social and cultural distance between Milton and Bunyan. In a paper that furthers our insight into the development of 'reader-focused' texts in the puritan historical and theological milieu, she argued that both Milton and Bunyan incorporate the theology of psychomachy or internal spiritual warfare into Paradise Lost and Pilgrim 's Progress so as to give these works a shaping, affective power designed to exercise and sanctify the reader through the trials and temptations incorporated in the reading process. If Dr. Zinck showed that the text is a site of trial and temptation, Dr Keeble demonstrated that the cultural context is equally figured as a hostile wilderness made far more hostile by the Restoration and equally fraught with tests of conscience and conviction for pilgrims.
ISSN:0954-0970