From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: September 8, 1995| Author: Cunneen, Joseph | COPYRIGHT 1995 National Catholic Reporter. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Theodore Fraser begins his penetrating study by conceding that "the Catholic novel is in many ways a literary phenomenon belonging to the past," but the final effect of his book is to suggest that the category still has vitality. The author, a specialist in French literature, teaches a course on the modern religious novel at Holy Cross College. I hope his study becomes required reading for a host of new courses on the subject in schools that now neglect it.

Fraser provides u...