Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel

• Author(s): Michael Scott,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 294
• ISBN_10: 1349108464
  ISBN_13: 9781349108466
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... This book describes the challenge to traditional Christian beliefs that was inherent in the very concept of literary Realism and presents the Catholic novel as a series of conscious readaptations of Realist techniques and models. Authors studied include Flaubert, Bernanos and Mauriac.