On the north end of Londonliesan old nonconformistburial ground
named Bunhill Fields. Bunhill becamethefinal resting place for some
of the most honored names of English Protestantism. Burialoutside
the city walls symbolized that thoseinterredat Bunhill lived and
died outside the English body politic.Bunhill, its location
declares,isthe properhome for undomesticateddissenters. Amongmore
than 120,000 graves, three monuments stand in the central
courtyard: one for John Bunyan (1628a1688), a second for Daniel
Defoe (1660?a1731), and a third for William Blake (1757a1827).
Undomesticated Dissent asks, "why these three monuments?" The
answer, as Curtis Freeman leads readers to discover, is anidea as
vitalandtransformative for public life today as itwasunsettling and
revolutionary then. To telltheuntoldtaleof the Bunhill
graves,Freeman focuseson the three classic texts by Bunyan, Defoe,
and Blakea The Pilgrim's Progress , Robinson Crusoe , and Jerusalem
aas testaments of dissent. Their enduring literary power, as
Freeman shows,derives from theiroriginal political and religious
contexts.But Freeman also traces theabidingpropheticinfluenceof
these texts,revealingthe confluence of great literature and
principled religiousnonconformityin the checkered story of
democraticpoliticalarrangements. Undomesticated Dissent provides a
sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously
motivated dissent from the seventeenth century to the present, by
carefully comparing, contrasting, and then weighing the various
types of dissentaevangelicaland spiritual dissent (Bunyan),
economic and social dissent (Defoe),radical andapocalyptic dissent
(Blake). Freemanoffersdissentingimaginationasagenerative source for
democracy, as well as a force forresistancetothe coercivepowers of
domestication.By placing Bunyan, Defoe, and Blake within an
extended argument about the nature and ends of democracy,
Undomesticated Dissent reveals howthese three
mentransmittedtheirdemocratic ideas across the globe,hidden within
the text of their stories. Freemanconcludes thatdissent, so crucial
to the establishing of democracy, remainsequally essential for its
flourishing. Buried deep intheirfull narrative of religion and
resistance, the three monuments at Bunhill together declare that
dissent is not disloyalty, and that democracy depends on dissent.
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