Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways

The volume addresses 'the road', as object, route, and symbol in Britain: Angus and Hopkins explain that the book explores the 'sustaining interactions between physical environments and the moving human subject' (p. 2), focusing on the early modern period. [...]there is much to b...

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Published inBunyan studies no. 25; pp. 127 - 130
Main Author Bergen, Richard Angelo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2021
Subjects
Essays
Reading
Realism
Roads & highways
Shakespeare plays
Vagrancy
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England
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Summary:The volume addresses 'the road', as object, route, and symbol in Britain: Angus and Hopkins explain that the book explores the 'sustaining interactions between physical environments and the moving human subject' (p. 2), focusing on the early modern period. [...]there is much to be learned from the numerous discussions of vagrancy and life on the roads throughout the work. The basic contention, that Bunyan drew from contemporary fair patterns, and contemporaneous infrastructure proj ects, particularly the Great North Road proj ect and the 1663 laws about drainage and tolls (the Turnpike Act, and the Act for the Bedford Level Corporation) in his representation of the king's highway, is extremely robust.
ISSN:0954-0970