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  1. The Holy War

    1682 novel by John Bunyan

    The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, to Regain the Metropolis of the World, Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul is a 1682 novel by John Bunyan. Regarded as one of the early modern English novel written in the form of an allegory, it tells the story of the residents in a town called "Mansoul". Though the town along with its citizens is deemed perfect under the rule of Shaddai, its citizens had been persuaded by Diabolus to rebel and throw off his reign, effectively crowning Diabolus as its ruler. During Diabolus' reign on Mansoul, Shaddai, seeking to restore his kingship, sends his son Emmanuel to reclaim it. Wikipedia

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    The Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, to Regain the Metropolis of the World, Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul is a 1682 novel by John Bunyan.Regarded as one of the early modern English novel written in the form of an allegory, it tells the story of the residents in a town called "Mansoul" (Man's soul).Though the town along with its citizens is deemed perfect ...
  3. academic.oup.com

    This was a social upheaval recalled with disgust in popular comedies such as Sir Robert Howard's The Committee (1662), George Etherege's The Comicall Revenge, or Love in a Tub (1664), and Thomas D'Urfey's The Royalist (1682). Although the displacement of the traditional elite from the basis of its economic power was largely corrected ...
  4. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Ihara Saikaku. Kōshoku ichidai otoko (1682; The Life of an Amorous Man), the first of Saikaku's many novels concerned with the pleasure quarters, relates the erotic adventures of its hero, Yonosuke, from his precocious experiences at the age of 6 to his departure at 60 for an island of women.
  5. attention to two novels, one of which bears an interesting relationship to Absalom and Achitophel. Early in 1682, a novel entitled The Perplex d Prince appeared, containing a particularly scurrilous attack on James.5 It is dedicated to William, Lord Russell, Shaftesbury's close associate, who was to be executed for his part in the rebellion.6
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    Abstract. By the early 1680s John Bunyan had achieved respect and popularity for his public preaching. As an author he attempted to build on the great success of The Pilgrim's Progress, first with The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) and then with The Holy War, which was published in 1682.Bunyan's most ambitious and elaborate work of fiction took the form of an allegorical battle epic ...
  7. Jan 1, 2025Ihara Saikaku (born 1642, Ōsaka, Japan—died Sept. 9, 1693, Ōsaka) was a poet and novelist, one of the most brilliant figures of the 17th-century revival of Japanese literature.He enchanted readers with racy accounts of the amorous and financial affairs of the merchant class and the demimonde.. Saikaku first won fame for his amazing facility in composing haikai, humorous renga (linked-verse ...
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    In London, the King's Company and the Duke's Company join to form the United Company of actors. [1]In Paris, the Bibliothèque Mazarine reopens at the Collège des Quatre-Nations.; In Japan, Ihara Saikaku's The Life of an Amorous Man (好色一代男, Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko, "The Man Who Spent His Life in Love") inaugurates what becomes known as ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world ...

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