Titlebook: Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England; Tales of Turning Abigail Shinn Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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William L. Miller,Stephen White,Paul Heywood which are identified by converts as having precipitated their conversion experiences; analysing narratives in which converts ascribe a change in their soul to a change in their reading habits; and considering the implied utility of conversion texts themselves, and their writers’ construction of an

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William L. Miller,Stephen White,Paul Heywood eloquent convert in securing and perpetuating religious change. I then go on to look at prevailing, and pervasive, tropes in conversion narratives, from the metaphor of the hunt to the convert figured as a lost sheep returned to the fold. The chapter also considers the importance of the connection

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978-3-030-07216-2The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

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Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England978-3-319-96577-2Series ISSN 2634-5919 Series E-ISSN 2634-5927

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,Conclusion: Bunyan’s Turn,iders Bunyan’s use of tropes as a system of portable signs informed by biblical typology. Exploring how this results in allegory replacing the ‘real’, the conclusion outlines how Bunyan’s writings reflect and perpetuate a fundamentally different attitude to trope to that present in the earlier conversion narratives addressed by the book.