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: JaneAusten
Charlotte Bronte
Thomas Carlyle
Geoffrey Chaucer
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
George Eliot
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Thomas Hardy
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
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