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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8811
dc.title	The Novelist and Social Catholicism: George Fonsegrive’s Le Fils de l’Esprit
dc.contributor.author	Talar Charles
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/journal-of-modern-and-contemporary-christianity/2022/1/the-novelist-and-social-catholicism-george-fonsegr/
dc.description.abstract	George Fonsegrive (1852-1917), noteworthy for his work in philosophy and apologetics, also wrote several novels under the pen name of Yves Le Querdec. For the most part they can be classed as realist social novels with a didactic purpose. Le Fils de l’Esprit (1905) falls among these. While didactic novels are not generally remembered for their literary merit, the very qualities that consign them to marginal interest attract the interest of the historian. In the details of life and human interaction that novels portray may be communicated the texture of the times and feeling of a period that more analytic treatments convey. As a novelist, Fonsegrive offers perspectives on a French Catholicism that was undergoing significant transformation in its social action.
dc.relation.ispartof	JoMaCC
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 1 \| Num. 1 \| Aprile 2022
dc.issued	2022-04-29
dc.dateAccepted	2022-04-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-04-14
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2785-6046
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/JoMaCC/1864-4239/2022/01/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	France
dc.subject	George Fonsegrive
dc.subject	Religion and literature
dc.subject	Roman Catholic Modernism
dc.subject	Social Catholicism

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The Novelist and Social Catholicism: George Fonsegrive’s Le Fils de l’Esprit

Charles Talar University of St. Thomas, Houston/Texas, USA

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George Fonsegrive (1852-1917), noteworthy for his work in philosophy and apologetics, also wrote several novels under the pen name of Yves Le Querdec. For the most part they can be classed as realist social novels with a didactic purpose. Le Fils de l’Esprit (1905) falls among these. While didactic novels are not generally remembered for their literary merit, the very qualities that consign them to marginal interest attract the interest of the historian. In the details of life and human interaction that novels portray may be communicated the texture of the times and feeling of a period that more analytic treatments convey. As a novelist, Fonsegrive offers perspectives on a French Catholicism that was undergoing significant transformation in its social action.

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29 Aprile 2022

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27 Aprile 2022

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14 Aprile 2022

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Keywords: France • George Fonsegrive • Religion and literature • Social Catholicism • Roman Catholic Modernism

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