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The Life and Death of Mr Badman - Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive (Hardcover)
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The Life and Death of Mr Badman - Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue between Mr Wiseman and Mr Attentive (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Texts
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This first critical edition is one of few reprints of a book which
was originally published in 1680, two years after The Pilgrim's
Progress, when it was described by Bunyan as 'the Life and Death of
the Ungodly, and their travel from this world to Hell', in contrast
to Christian's journey to heaven. In fact, Badman is not a true
sequel to the great allegory; rather, it is a very different book,
a dark, coarse, vigorous delineation of provincial vice. From his
apprenticeship until he becomes a prosperous shopkeeper, Badman
gives free rein to greed, lust, and the exploitation of others,
including his virtuous wife. Puritan moral abstraction is almost
buried under realistic detail in a work which looks both back to
the medieval homily and forward to the novel. It is an
indispensable work for the study of seventeenth-century Puritan
society and its mythology; as with the same editors' The Holy War,
it contains a full introduction and commentary.
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