Literal Figures: Puritan Allegory and the Reformation Crisis in Representation

by Thomas H. Luxon

Literal Figures is the most important work on John Bunyan to appear in many years, and a significant contribution to the history and theory of representation. Beginning with mainstream Puritan responses to a challenge to orthodoxy--a man who claims he has been literally transformed into Christ and his companion who claims to be the "Spouse of Christ"--and concluding with an analysis of The Pilgrim's Progress, which John Bunyan described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226497852
• ISBN13: 9780226497853
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"