Competing Authorities: A Typographic Study of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
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John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has had impregnable renown for both its wide readership, second to the Bible, and the author’s ingenuity as one of the first English novelist. Nevertheless, it is necessary to differentiate its proper value from its constructed one so that it can be fairly appreciated either as a literary text or as a spiritual one. This paper aims to reveal the making of The Pilgrim’s Progress through a typographic analysis, and by doing so, unmask the text’s inflated aura. The typography of the original text, such as the use of italicization, margin, and font, will be carefully examined. The 17th century was the beginning stage for the printing industry, and authority over a material text did not belong to the author but to the printer and the publisher. Within this historical context, it is important that Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is analogous with the Bible in terms its graphical/typographic composition in a text/page. This typographic connection with the Bible served as an effective marketing strategy that won the readers’ interest and trust. The Pilgrim’s Progress not only borrowed from the Bible’s authority but eventually gained a status and legitimacy that equaled the Bible. As a result, Bunyan’s book was successful in ways that other religious texts, of which there were many during the time, were not.
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John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress has had impregnable renown for both its wide readership, second to the Bible, and the author’s ingenuity as one of the first English novelist. Nevertheless, it is necessary to differentiate its proper value from its constructed one so that it can be fairly appreciated either as a literary text or as a spiritual one. This paper aims to reveal the making of The Pilgrim’s Progress through a typographic analysis, and by doing so, unmask the text’s inflated aura. The typography of the original text, such as the use of italicization, margin, and font, will be carefully examined. The 17th century was the beginning stage for the printing industry, and authority over a material text did not belong to the author but to the printer and the publisher. Within this historical context, it is important that Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is analogous with the Bible in terms its graphical/typographic composition in a text/page. This typographic connection with the Bible served as an effective marketing strategy that won the readers’ interest and trust. The Pilgrim’s Progress not only borrowed from the Bible’s authority but eventually gained a status and legitimacy that equaled the Bible. As a result, Bunyan’s book was successful in ways that other religious texts, of which there were many during the time, were not.
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