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BL
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584501
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b413720
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Sudlow, Brian
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| Title & Author
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Catholic literature and secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914 /\ Brian Sudlow
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| Publication Statement
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Manchester ;New York :: Manchester University Press :New York :: distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,, 2011
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264 p. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9780719083112
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: 0719083117
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index
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| Abstract
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This book is the first comparative study of its kind to explore at length the French and English Catholic literary revivals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These parallel but mostly independent movements included writers such as Charles Péguy, Paul Claudel, J. K. Huysmans, Gerard Manley Hopkins, G. K. Chesterton, and Lionel Johnson. Revising critical approaches which tend to treat Catholic writings as exotic marginalia, this book makes extensive use of secularisation theory to confront these Catholic writings with the preoccupations of secularism and modernity
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The book compares individual and societal secularisation in France and England and examines how French and English Catholic writers understood and contested secular mores, ideologies and praxes in the individual, societal and religious domains. It also addresses the extent to which some Catholic writers succumbed to the seduction of secular instincts, even paradoxically in themes which are considered to be emblematic of Catholic literature
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The breadth of this book will make it a useful guide for students wishing to become familiar with a wide range of such writings in France and England during this period. It will also appeal to researchers interested in Catholic literary and intellectual history in France and England, theologians, philosophers and students of the sociology of religion. Book jacket
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English literature-- Catholic authors-- History and criticism
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French literature-- Catholic authors-- History and criticism
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English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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French literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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French literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
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Catholic literature-- History and criticism
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Secularism-- Great Britain-- History
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Secularism-- France-- History
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9921282
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PN49.S835 2011
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