The Image of the Church Minister in Literature
- Author / Editor
- Heidt, Edward R.
The Image of the Church Minister in Literature
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen, 1994.
- Physical Description
- [vi], 163 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation, no. 15.
- Description
- Chronological survey of representative depictions of church ministers in a variety of works, from Chaucer to Morris West, briefly considering works by Shakespeare, Trollope, John Henry Newman, George Eliot, Ibsen, Edmund Gosse, Joyce, Graham Greene, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Emerson. Heidt notes that Chaucer's Monk, Friar, Pardoner, Summoner, and Parson (pp. 7-28) anticipate the Reformation and later literary ministers.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.