Stachniewski, John

Stachniewski, John, The Persecutory Imagination English Puritanism and the Literature of Religious Despair, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991. 

Cousins s Freudianism opens up obvious explanatory possibilities for this - the association of De Flores and Vermandero in Beatrice-Joanna s psyche, for instance, leading to the displaced Oedipal scenario I outlined briefly above - but John Stachniewski offers a contextual explanation in the playwrights (especially Middleton s) immersion in the English form of Calvinism - in, that is, a culture of predestination. What we find in the drama pervaded by Calvinism , Stachniewski argues, is a conception of... 

On Bunyan and predestination, see John Stachniewski, The Persecutory Imagination English Puritanism and the Literature of Despair (Oxford Clarendon Press, 1991), pp. 127-216. See also Davies, Graceful Reading, pp. 17-80. 

Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies, ed. John Stachniewski with Anita Pacheco, The World s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1998. 

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