ABSTRACT
In sites originating in the USA, John Bunyan is deployed as a far more active figure in an ongoing evangelical project. Grace Abounding presented a narrative of Bunyan's flirtation with the antinomian ideas of the Ranters and his texts in general testify to his need to differentiate his model of Christianity from that of rival groups such as the Quakers. In A Book for Boys and Girls Bunyan's spelling guide revealed both the regulatory and destabilising features of writing. The space offered by the new technology is neither entirely free nor absolutely regulated by some anterior commercial or political force. Bunyan employed the authority of print to struggle against the social and political formations which denied him the authority to preach; similarly marginalised or disenfranchised subjects today may exploit the new possibilities of electronic communication.
