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Readable and engaging ... It will benefit a range of general readers interested in literature, church history, and theology. Most importantly, for those who have ears to hear, it will help in the ongoing rekindling of the fires of imagination that have always carried the church. --Christianity Today Rich, scholarly, and impressively wide-ranging. --The Seventeenth Century The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton' reexamines the evolving rhetoric of England's godly - from Perkins and Sibbes, through Baxter and the Quakers, to Bunyan and Milton. It shows how in developing a rhetoric of conversion they also effected a conversion of rhetoric, reshaping English literature with singular invention and creativity. --Professor John Coffey, University of Leicester, UK

Readable and engaging ... It will benefit a range of general readers interested in literature, church history, and theology. Most importantly, for those who have ears to hear, it will help in the ongoing rekindling of the fires of imagination that have always carried the church. * Christianity Today * Rich, scholarly, and impressively wide-ranging. * The Seventeenth Century * The Rhetoric of Conversion in English Puritan Writing from Perkins to Milton' reexamines the evolving rhetoric of England's godly - from Perkins and Sibbes, through Baxter and the Quakers, to Bunyan and Milton. It shows how in developing a rhetoric of conversion they also effected a conversion of rhetoric, reshaping English literature with singular invention and creativity. * Professor John Coffey, University of Leicester, UK *

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David Parry is a member of the Department of English and Film at the University of Exeter, UK. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Allegory (forthcoming) and has published on early modern literature in journals, including SEL and Christianity and Literature and essay collections from various publishers. David also serves as Reviews Editor for Bunyan Studies.

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