Centring Bunyan: Macaulay, Froude, Hale White

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 17; p. 68
• Main Author: Newey, Vincent
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2013
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature

[...]Bunyan is 'almost the only writer who ever gave to the abstract the interest of the concrete'. [...]as we yet know, morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command [...] [...]duty' can be presented to us in a shape whic...