Cynthia Wall

Cynthia Wall is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Prose of Things: The Transformation of Description in the Eighteenth Century and The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London. She is editor of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (Bedford), Daniel Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin), The Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Blackwell), and Genre and Culture in the Eighteenth Century; or, Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter.

Cynthia Wall

Cynthia Wall is Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Prose of Things: The Transformation of Description in the Eighteenth Century and The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London. She is editor of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (Bedford), Daniel Defoe's The Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin), The Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Blackwell), and Genre and Culture in the Eighteenth Century; or, Serious Reflections on Occasional Forms: Essays in Honor of J. Paul Hunter.

Books by Cynthia Wall

  • The Pilgrim's Progress: A Norton Critical Edition

    John Bunyan, Cynthia Wall

    First Edition, Paperback, 2008

    As featured on PBS’s The Great American Read

    John Bunyan was a Baptist preacher and author with little education but much vision and purpose.