| Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan Subjects: Bunyan John 1628–1688 -- Political and social views -- Congresses; Bunyan John 1628–1688 -- Psychology -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642–1660 -- Congresses; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1660–1688 -- Congres; This collection of revisionist essays charts the evolving political, psychological, and sexual identity of the English Puritan writer John Bunyan in light of the traumatic impact of regicide on seventeenth-century England. Vera Camden is Professor of English at Kent State University. She is the editor of Compromise Formations: Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism (1989) and of The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont (1992). |