The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of the Pilgrim's Progress

by Isabel Hofmeyr

How does a book become an international bestseller? What happens to it as it is translated into different languages, contexts, and societies? How is it changed by the intellectual environments it encounters? What does the transnational circulation mean for its reception back home? Exploring the international life of a particularly long-lived and widely traveled book, Isabel Hofmeyr follows The Pilgrim's Progress as it circulates through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691116563
• ISBN13: 9780691116563
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"