'Rather Dark to Readers in General': Some Critical Casualties of John Bunyan's Holy War (1682)1

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 9; p. 25
• Main Author: Lynch, Beth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.1999
• Subjects: British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); English literature; Keats, John (1795-1821)

Whilst reviewing the scholarship on this great, complex narrative, I became intrigued by a pattern which recurred with remarkable consistency, and seemingly regardless of historical period or theoretical orientation. Since Bunyan's identification in the late-nineteenth century as an object of a...