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

List of Figures
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Part One: Panoramas
1. An Introduction: “Go, Now, My Little Book, to Every Place”
Angelica Duran (Purdue University) and Katherine Calloway (Baylor University)
2. Trans-spatial, Transtemporal and Transmedial Bunyan
Nathalie Collé (University of Lorraine)
Part Two: Textual Cameos
3. Illustrating Bunyan for Children
Shannon Murray (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
4. Illustrating The Pilgrim's Progress in Staged Performance
Angelica Duran (Purdue University)
5. Images of John and Juan Bunyan in Two Progresos for Children
Mario Murgia (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Part Three: Textual Close-Ups
6. The ABC of The Pilgrim's Progress Cover Art
Andy Draycott (Biola University)
7. Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress and Embodied Spirituality
Camille Adnot (Paris-East Créteil University)
8. Illustrating Disability in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part 2
Andrew McKendry (Nord University)

9. The Pilgrim and the Hearth in the Welsh Reception of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
Jerry Hunter (Bangor University, Wales)
10. The Japanese Iconography of the Inquisitive Reader in The Pilgrim's Progress
Katsuhiro Engetsu (Doshisha University)
Part Four: A Prospect Beyond Books
11. Bunyan in the Bible Belt
Katherine Calloway (Baylor University)
12. The Pilgrim's Shield, 1878
Alistair Grant (University of Sussex) and Angus Patterson (Victoria and Albert Museum)
13. Bunyan in Stained Glass
Jasmine Allen (The Stained Glass Museum)
14. Bunyan in the Imperial City
Ana Elena González-Treviño (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
15. Hennell's Puritan Progress and the Portrait of the Artist as Bunyan
Vera Camden (Kent State University)
16. The Pilgrim's Progress as Marvel Comic
Joshua Reid (East Tennessee State University)

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Oct 02 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 432
ISBN 9781666960792
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 133 bw illus
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Angelica Duran

Angelica Duran is Professor of English and compara…

Anthology Editor

Katherine Calloway

Katherine Calloway is Associate Professor of Engli…

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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