Christian's Children: The Influence of John Bunyan's the Pilgrim's Progress on American Children's Literature

by Ruth K. MacDonald

This in-depth study of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress focuses especially on the American reception of the book and on American retellings of it for children from its original publication through the twentieth century. Of special interest are the chapters dealing with Bunyan's book as it appears in nine individual American works for children, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, including Little Women, Huckleberry Finn, The Wizard...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820410039
• ISBN13: 9780820410036
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 208 Pages