Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914 - Sudlow, Brian (Manchester University Press, 2011)
Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Individual and societal secularisation in France and England; 2 Recovering the porous individual; 3 Thinking and believing; 4 The fragments of secular society; 5 Mending secular fragmentation; 6 Ultimate societal values; 7 Catholic religiosity and the hierarchical Church; 8 Catholic religiosity and the charismatic Church; Concluding reflections; References; Index
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. It compares individual and societal secularisation in France and England and examines how French and English Catholic writers understood and contested secular mores, ideologies and praxis, 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 Cat