Enchanting the Reader in The Pilgrim's Progress

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 12; p. 70
• Main Author: Chong, Kenneth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2006
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Bunyan, John (1628-88); English literature; Reading

(PP 56) Following this is a commonplace exchange in romance of verbal assaults ('flitings'), which merely foreshadows the physical assaults that take place between a knight-errant hero and a foe whose scales, flaming breath, wings, 'yelling, and hideous roaring', Sharrock notes,...