Bunyan and Virginia Woolf: A History and a Language of Their Own

First printed in England in 1563, the Book of Martyrs offered its readers a reconstruction of the past which sought to establish the true traditions of Protestant England for the new Protestant princess, Elizabeth I.9 By the early seventeenth century Foxe's creation of a Protestant history, in...

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Published inBunyan studies Vol. 5; no. 5; p. 15
Main Author Dusinberre, Juliet
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Bunyan Studies 01.10.1994
Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English literature
Language history
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:First printed in England in 1563, the Book of Martyrs offered its readers a reconstruction of the past which sought to establish the true traditions of Protestant England for the new Protestant princess, Elizabeth I.9 By the early seventeenth century Foxe's creation of a Protestant history, in which the development of the vernacular itself played a central part, had served a purpose of providing popular material for a new kind of common reader. Before faith came, we were kepte and shut up under the lawe, unto the faith which shulde afterwarde be declared. [...]the lawe was our scolemaster unto Christ, that we might be made righteous by faith. The only gift needed by Christ's followers was one open to women as well as to men - that of prophecy: [...]the profession of religion seems to have been originally much what the profession of literature is now. [...]her own writing can establish a different bond with traditional texts' (p. 252).
ISSN:0954-0970