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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

List of Figures

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

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 02 2025
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 432
ISBN 9781666960808
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 133 bw illus
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Angelica Duran

Angelica Duran is Professor of English and compara…

Anthology Editor

Katie Calloway

Katie Calloway is Associate Professor of English a…

Contributor

Nathalie Collé

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Shannon Murray

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Mario Murgia

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Andy Draycott

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Camille Adnot

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Andrew McKendry

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Jerry Hunter

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Alistair Grant

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Angus Patterson

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Jasmine Allen

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Vera Camden

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Joshua Reid

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