BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Forrest, James F. and Richard L. Greaves. John Bunyan: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co, 1982, 417 p.

Annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works.

Harrison, Frank Mott. A Bibliography of the Works of John Bunyan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932, 79 p.

A complete bibliography of Bunyan's works, including posthumous works and works attributed to Bunyan.

BIOGRAPHIES

Brown, John. John Bunyan: His Life, Times, and Work. 1885. Reprint. London: The Hulbert Publishing Company, 1928, 488 p.

An overview of Bunyan's life, placing his works in their historical context.

Firth, C. H. John Bunyan. 1911. Reprint. Folcroft Library Editions, 1970, 26 p.

A biography of Bunyan's life, including some analysis of his major works.

Greaves, Richard L. John Bunyan. Abingdon, Berkshire: Sutton Courtenay Press, 1969, 174 p.

An overview of Bunyan's philosophical and religious beliefs.

Lindsay, Jack. John Bunyan: Maker of Myths. New York: Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1937. Reprint. 267 p.

Biography that attempts to relate Bunyan's works to “the social forces from which they sprang.”

Talon, Henri. John Bunyan: The Man and His Works. London: Rockliff, 1951, 332 p.

Survey of Bunyan's life with extensive analysis of his religious thought.

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. John Bunyan. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1961, 235 p.

A detailed account of Bunyan's life and writing career.

CRITICISM

Baird, Charles W. John Bunyan: A Study in Narrative Technique. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1977, 160 p.

Provides an analysis of the “literal” and the “allegorical” narrative techniques Bunyan developed to satisfy both the “mimetic” and the “didactic” purposes of his writing.

Bottrall, Margaret. “Bunyan's Grace Abounding.” In Every Man A Phoenix: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography, pp. 82-110. London: John Murray, 1958.

An in-depth consideration of Bunyan's “mixed motives” behind the writing of Grace Abounding: “devotion, propaganda and catharsis.”

Breen, Margaret Soenser. “The Sexed Pilgrim's Progress.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 32, No. 3 (Summer 1992): 443-58.

Considers Bunyan's attitudes and beliefs about gender by analyzing passages from The Pilgrim's Progress.

Danielson, Dennis. “Milton, Bunyan, and the Clothing of Truth and Righteousness.” In Heirs of Fame: Milton and Writers of the English Renaissance, edited by Margo Swiss and David A. Kent, pp. 247-67. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1995.

Examines images of nakedness and clothing as metaphors for spiritual integrity in the works of Bunyan and Milton.

Freeman, Rosemary. “John Bunyan: The End of the Tradition.” In English Emblem Books, pp. 204-28. London: Chatto & Windus, 1948.

Marks Bunyan as the last to successfully make use of the emblem convention, in which poem and pictures complement each other to tell a story.

Greaves, Richard. John Bunyan and English Nonconformity. London: The Hambledon Press, 1992, 230 p.

Collection of essays, spanning a thirty-year period, by a noted Bunyan scholar.

Harrison, G. B. John Bunyan: A Study in Personality. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1928, 189 p.

Traces the development of Bunyan's philosophy and beliefs by analyzing portions of his major works.

Kelman, John. The Road: A Study of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Edinburgh: Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1911, 231 p.

Discussion of Bunyan and The Pilgrim's Progress that emphasizes “the essential humanness of the man and his allegory.”

Leavis, Q. D. “The Puritan Conscience.” In Fiction and the Reading Public, pp. 97-117. 1932. Reprint. London: Bellew Publishing, 1990.

Examination of The Pilgrim's Progress that argues Bunyan's “method is that of the best novelists-to reveal men for what they are.”

Luxon, Thomas H. “‘Other Mens Words’ and ‘New Birth’: Bunyan's Anti-Hermeneutics of Experience.” In Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation, pp. 130-58. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Provides an analysis of Bunyan's “skepticism about language” and his feeling that words were inadequate to the task of conveying his meaning.

Schellenberg, Betty A. “Sociability and the Sequel: Rewriting Hero and Journey in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II.” Studies in the Novel XXIII, No. 3 (Fall 1991): 312-21.

Examines the second part of The Pilgrim's Progress as a text that constructs a familial circle around women, thus introducing communal, secular, and historical dimensions in the narrative.

Sharrock, Roger. John Bunyan. London: Hutchinson's University Library, 1954, 165 p.

Survey of Bunyan's works that stresses the author's “individual spiritual history” and “his place in the Puritan literary tradition.”

———. John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress. London: Edward Arnold, 1966, 64 p.

Detailed analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress as a theological fable and dramatic work.

Van Ghent, Dorothy. “On The Pilgrim's Progress.” In The English Novel: Form and Function, pp. 21-32. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1953.

Examines Bunyan's use of allegory and imagery in The Pilgrim's Progress.

Watkins, Owen C. “Bunyan's Grace Abounding.” In The Puritan Experience: Studies in Spiritual Autobiography, pp. 101-20. New York: Schocken Books, 1972.

Concludes that Grace Abounding has a cohesive narrative that involves the reader from the beginning to the end.

Additional coverage of Bunyan's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, 1660-1789; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 39; Discovering Authors; Discovering Authors: British; Discovering Authors: Canadian; Discovering Authors, Modules: Most-Studied Authors; and World Literature Criticism.