Product Description: John Bunyan (1628-88) lived and wrote through some of the most turbulent years of political, social, and religious change in British history from civil war, through Commonwealth and Protectorate to the Restoration. Imprisoned for unlicensed preaching as a Nonconformist, Bunyan turned to writing to sustain his pastoral mission and composed some of the best-known, and most critically acclaimed, seventeenth-century texts, from his intensely moving spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, to the world famous allegory The Pilgrim's Progress...read more

Chronicles the little-known story of late-nineteenth-century outlaw Oliver Curtis Perry, who, in 1892 stole a fortune during a New York train robbery and became a celebrity as the quarry in a dramatic manhunt that ended in his imprisonment, and discusses his colorful life in prison as an escape artist, protester, hunger-striker, and poet. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Questions about how and why we read the past continue to demand the attention of cultural critics. Reading the Past introduces key debates about history, historiography, and historicism that have transformed approaches to history and literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Foucault's theories on power, crime and sexuality have enourmously influenced the postmodern debates within postfeminism, cultural studies, sociology, and history.

Product Description: This is a work which looks at the writing of John Bunyan, focusing on his work, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners among others. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)