Michael Davies - The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan

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THIS book has been a long time coming, and a number of debts have accrued while awaiting its arrival. Thanks are owed, first and foremost, to the volumes many contributors, who have been anticipating its appearance for longer than could reasonably be expected. Michael Davies would like to express enormous gratitude to Bob Owens, who joined him as co-editor, both for working so hard to see the volume into completion and for making a hard climb so productive and enjoyable. His support, friendship, and continual Good Chear are always deeply appreciated. A no less sincere note of thanks is also owed to various friends and colleagues whose help and supportparticularly in bringing to light Bunyan-related phenomena over the last few yearsshould not go unacknowledged: Alex Broadhead, Dinah Birch, Paul Baines, and David Salter. We would like to thank at Oxford University Press Jacqueline Norton, both for commissioning this Oxford Handbook and for her invaluable guidance and support throughout, and Aimee Wright, for her unfailing assistance and good spirit in bringing the book to press. Last, though never least, thanks are owed, as ever, to Carina Vitti and Patti Owens for their own enduring patience, help, and support.

It seems fitting, and gives us pleasure, to dedicate the collective endeavours of this Handbook to the members of the International John Bunyan Society who have done so much to help Bunyan Studies to flourish over the last three decades, and who will no doubt continue to do so. The collection is also dedicated to the memory of Nick Davis: friend, colleague, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, and indefatigable generator of sympathetic electricity.

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Michael Davies

Michael A. Mullett

John Coffey

Anne Dunan-Page

Dewey D. Wallace, Jr

Alison Searle

Roger Pooley

Margaret J. M. Ezell

N. H. Keeble

Kathleen Lynch

David Walker

David Gay

Nigel Smith

Ken Simpson

Michael Davies

Katsuhiro Engetsu

Nancy Rosenfeld

Arlette Zinck

Margaret Olofson Thickstun

Elizabeth Clarke

W. R. Owens

Jeremy Tambling

Nick Davis

Mary Ann Lund

Julie Coleman

Maxine Hancock

Tamsin Spargo

Vera J. Camden

Stuart Sim

Lori Branch

Cynthia Wall

Isabel Rivers

Jonathon Shears

Vincent Newey

Joel D. S. Rasmussen

Gary Day

Nathalie Coll

Shannon Murray

Sylvia Brown

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Lori Branch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. Among her publications is Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth (2006); she is also editor of the monograph series Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies for Ohio State University Press. Her books-in-progress are