'Tell All Men': Bunyan and the Gendering of Discourse

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 11; p. 8
• Main Author: Graham, Jean
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2003
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); English literature

[...]Bunyan's men benefit from positive associations with feminine characteristics such as submission, but for them also transgressive speech is condemned as parallel to female promiscuity. [...]it is too simple to say, as does Tamsin Spargo, that 'the female characters of Bunyan's la...