W R Owens is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bedfordshire. His publications include editions of John Bunyan's Grace Abounding (1987), The Pilgrim's Progress (2003) and two volumes in the Clarendon Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan (1994). A founder editor of the journal Bunyan Studies, he is also co-editor of John Bunyan and his England 1628-88 (1990), Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon (1996), and A Handbook to Literary Research (1998). P N Furbank was Emeritus Professor of Literature at The Open University. He was the author of studies of Samuel Butler and Italo Svevo, and the biographer of E M Forster and Diderot. His other books included Reflections on the Word 'Image' (1970), Unholy Pleasure: The Idea of Social Class (1985), and Behalf (1999).

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