The Collar: Reading Christian Ministry in Fiction, Television, and Film

by Sue Sorensen

Book Overview

Combining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, 'The Collar' is a wide-ranging study of the many ways - heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly - in which Christian clergy have been represented in literature, from George Herbert and Laurence Sterne, via Anthony Trollope, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, and Graham Greene, to Susan Howatch and Robertson Davies, and in film and television, such as 'Pale Rider', 'The Thorn Birds', 'The Vicar of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0718893646
• ISBN13: 9780718893644
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Length: 316 Pages