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. The mainstream Realist novelists from Flaubert and the Goncourts to Zola and the Catholic novelists from Barbey d'Aurevilly to Bernanos and Julien Green are discussed, as are Huysmans, Bloy and Mauriac. Scott has also written "Mauriac: The Politics of a Novelist".
- ISBN10 0333491491
- ISBN13 9780333491492
- Publish Date 19 January 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 September 1995
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English