Dr Roger Pooley

Title: Lecturer
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Location: CBB 2.050
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My doctoral work was on Bunyan, and I have remained interested and active in Bunyan studies, with a number of articles over the years. Currently I am finishing an edition of The Pilgrim's Progress . I am Treasurer of the International John Bunyan Society. I would be interested in supervising work on Bunyan and his contemporaries (a student of mine has recently and successfully finished a thesis on The Holy War). More generally, I work on the seventeenth century, particularly on prose, fiction and non-fiction. I am writing an entry on early modern literature for the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature and developing a longer study on the figure of the atheist in early modern literature and theology. My own critical standpoint, I usually say, is that of a Bakhtinian Christian who has never forgotten being taught by Raymond Williams.

Selected Publications

  • POOLEY R. 2010. The Pilgrim's Progress and the line of allegory. In The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan. Dunan-Page (Ed.). Cambridge Univ Pr.
  • Pooley R. 2009. Early Modern Literature. In Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Lemon R, Mason E, Roberts J, Rowland C (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Bunyan J. Pooley R (Ed.). 2009. The Pilgrim's Progress. Penguin Classics.
  • Pooley R. 2008. Bunyan and the Antinomians. In Trauma and transformation: The political progress of John Bunyan. Camden VJ and Conference IJBS (Eds.). Stanford: Stanford Univ Pr.
  • Roger P. 2004. Francis Cheynell. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Bunyan J. Pooley R (Ed.). 2009. The Pilgrim's Progress. Penguin Classics.

Journal Articles

  • Roger P. 2004. Francis Cheynell. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).
  • Roger P. 2004. Isaac Ambrose. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).
  • R.F. P. 2004. John Saltmarsh. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).
  • Roger P. 2004. Tobias Crisp. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).
  • Roger P. 2004. William Dell. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Ed HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison).
  • Pooley R. 2003. Donald Davie, Collected Poems and Elizabeth Jennings, New Collected Poems (Review essay). The Glass, 23-25.
  • Pooley R. 2003. Milton, John. Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals.

Chapters

  • POOLEY R. 2010. The Pilgrim's Progress and the line of allegory. In The Cambridge Companion to Bunyan. Dunan-Page (Ed.). Cambridge Univ Pr.
  • Pooley R. 2009. Early Modern Literature. In Companion to the Bible in English Literature. Lemon R, Mason E, Roberts J, Rowland C (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Pooley R. 2008. Bunyan and the Antinomians. In Trauma and transformation: The political progress of John Bunyan. Camden VJ and Conference IJBS (Eds.). Stanford: Stanford Univ Pr.
  • Pooley R. 2002. 'The Life and Death of Mr. Badman and Seventeenth-Century Discourses of Atheism'. In John Bunyan: Reading Dissenting Writing (Religious Discourse Vol. 12). Keeble NH (Ed.). Peter Lang, Oxford & Bern.