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Aiming at heaven, getting the earth : the English Catholic novel today / Marian E. Crowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowe, Marian E., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Catholic authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Catholic fiction--History and criticism.
- Catholic fiction.
- Christianity in literature.
- Catholics in literature.
- English fiction--Catholic authors.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 403 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2007]
- Summary:
- Aiming At Heaven, Getting the Earth: The English Catholic Novel Today argues that there is still vitality in the English Catholic novel. It analyses the fiction of four contemporary Catholic novelists: Alice Thomas Ellis, David Lodge, Sara Maitland, and Piers Paul Read. It situates their work both within the tradition of the Catholic novel as it developed in France and England and within the changing post Vatican II Catholic Church.
- Notes:
- This study analyzes the fiction of four contemporary Catholic novelists: Alice Thomas Ellis, David Lodge, Sara Maitland, and Piers Paul Read.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739116401
- 0739116401
- 9780739116418
- 073911641X
- OCLC:
- 76939970
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