Abstract
English puritanism and the social reality of religious despair - theological bases, some evidence, the social compound patriarchs, providence, and paranoia - subjectification and autobiographical narrative perceptual flames in Grace abounding The Pilgrim's Progress - allegory and persecutory imagination Robert Burton and religious despair in Calvinist England John Donne - the despair of the Holy Sonnets Doctor Faustus and Puritan culture - confronting the persecutory imagination Calvin, Satan and Milton's purpose. Appendix: a note on the recent questioning of Marx, Weber and Tawney.
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