Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse: by Raymond Chapman

Author: Raymond Chapman

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Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse: Clergy and Religious in Literature and Letters

by Raymond Chapman

From Geoffrey Chaucer's "poor Parson" to Jane Austen's Mr. Collins to Oscar Wilde's Canon Chasuble, religious figures have served as some of the most memorable characters of English literature. Drawn from a thousand years of literature and letters, Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse is a sumptuous literary anthology that celebrates the holy (and not so holy) men and women, both British and American, portrayed in great works of prose and poetry.

Throughout this unique, enjoyable book readers will find old friends and new. The clergy and religious in these extracts from masterpieces of literature are as varied as they are numerous: here are the saintly and the venial, the pious and the worldly, the noisy and the reserved, the wise and the foolish, the admirable and the absurd. These selections are not only engaging but also instructive. In mixing the fictional with the factual, they capture the varied personalities of clergy as well as their changing relationship with society and common folk over time and place. Their holy profession and the faith they proclaim have aroused every emotion from reverence and amusement to tolerant acceptance and scorn.

Editor and compiler Raymond Chapman has arranged the book into thematic sections and includes lively introductions and helpful running commentary throughout. Indexes of the authors and the featured clerics make it easy to locate a particular story or figure. Presenting a motley group of human beings as it does with panache, Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse will please a wide range of readers, including lovers of great literature and all who are interested in clergy and religious life.

Authors included:

Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Thomas Carlyle
Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Herbert
Washington Irving
Barbara Kingsolver
D. H. Lawrence
John Milton
Elizabeth Sewell
William Shakespeare
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Jonathan Swift
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth
and many more

288 pages; dimensions (in inches): 6 x 9

Godly and Righteous, Peevish and Perverse: by Raymond Chapman Author: Raymond Chapman
	Item#	Type	Price
	0802812139	Hardcover	18.95
Clergy and Religious in Literature and Letters: From Geoffrey Chaucer's "poor Parson" to Jane Austen's Mr. Collins to Oscar Wilde's Canon Chasuble, religious figures have served as some of the most memorable characters of English literature.

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