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

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 25; pp. 127 - 130
• Main Author: Bergen, Richard Angelo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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; Canada; United Kingdom > UK; England

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...