Global Bunyan and Visual Art
For information on how we process your data, read our Privacy Policy
Description
This book advances the conversation about the presence, aesthetic appropriation, and re-interpretation of the foundational English author John Bunyan (1628–1688), whose works and legend have had a vibrant afterlife in visual art.
Focusing on the global reach of Bunyan's works and legend through multiple media and cultural adaptations provides a unique opportunity to discover the varied and generative influence of Bunyan on cultures past and present, promoting a more diverse appreciation of Bunyan's unparalleled reach. The contributors also foster opportunities to discuss the role of intermediality in contemporary re-appropriations of early modern literature in the context of globalization, as well as a critical exploration of Bunyanic presence in global contemporary art via intertextual and intermedial relations.
Table of Contents
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part One: Panoramas
Chapter One
An Introduction: “Go, Now, My Little Book, to Every Place”
Angelica Duran and Katherine Calloway
Chapter Two
Trans-spatial, Transtemporal and Transmedial Bunyan
Nathalie Collé
Part Two: Textual Cameos
Chapter Three
Illustrating Bunyan for Children
Shannon Murray
Chapter Four
Illustrating The Pilgrim's Progress in Staged Performance
Angelica Duran
Chapter Five
Images of John and Juan Bunyan in Two Progresos for Children
Mario Murgia
Part Three: Textual Close-Ups
Chapter Six
The ABC of The Pilgrim's Progress Cover Art
Andy Draycott
Chapter Seven
Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress and Embodied Spirituality
Camille Adnot
Chapter Eight
Illustrating Disability in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2
Andrew McKendry
Chapter Nine
The Pilgrim and the Hearth in the Welsh Reception of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
Jerry Hunter
Chapter Ten: The Japanese Iconography of the Inquisitive Reader in The Pilgrim's Progress, Katsuhiro Engetsu
Part Four: A Prospect Beyond Books
Chapter Eleven: Bunyan in the Bible Belt
Katherine Calloway
Chapter Twelve
The Pilgrim's Shield, 1878
Alistair Grant and Angus Patterson
Chapter Thirteen
Bunyan in Stained Glass
Jasmine Allen
Chapter Fourteen
Bunyan in the Imperial City
Ana Elena González-Treviño
Chapter Fifteen
Hennell's Puritan Progress and the Portrait of the Artist as Bunyan
Vera Camden
Chapter Sixteen
The Pilgrim's Progress as Marvel Comic
Joshua Reid
Product details
| Published | Oct 02 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 432 |
| ISBN | 9781666960792 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 133 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Related Titles
