John Bunyan in Abolitionist Print Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9593249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaac Kolding (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 29-55 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-11092058 |
| OpenAlex | W4389356323 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) was enormously popular in the nineteenth-century United States. This article shows that abolitionists appropriated that text, as well as the reputation and biography of its author, as a guide to their own political action. References to Bunyan and The Pilgrim’s Progress in abolitionist print culture, including newspapers and book-length responses to The Pilgrim’s Progress, reveal that abolitionists saw Bunyan as a virtuous progenitor who helped to legitimate and unify their political movement while representing both political commitment and religious toleration
Art · Art history · Biography · Literature · Media studies · Newspaper · Pilgrim · Political science · Politics · Print culture · Reputation · Sociology · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · History · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |