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.

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University of St Andrews, UK

Malcolm Scott

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Book Title: Struggle for the Soul of the French Novel
Authors: Malcolm Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10846-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10846-6Published: 18 June 1989
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 294
Topics: Fiction, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature

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