The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe.

National Catholic Reporter | September 8, 1995| | Copyright

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 us with a reliable survey of the European Catholic novel from its 19th century French origins to ...

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