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This work is the only study to focus on these three novels. The argument departs from previous scholarship by emphasizing the ambivalence and even, to some extent, hostility, evinced by each of the authors to aspects of modern social conditions, and by examining their discontents in detail. The study also shows a portrayal by the authors of a gradual increase in the tensions they detect in social and artistic conditions during the modern period.
Artists in literature. --- German fiction -- History and criticism. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. --- Keller, Gottfried, 1819-1890. Grüne Heinrich. --- Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. Doktor Faustus. --- German fiction --- Kèunstlerromane --- Artists in literature --- Art in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic Literature --- History and criticism --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Keller, Gottfried, --- Mann, Thomas,
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Since the Reformation, Catholics in Britain have been faced with an outsider status that has often given rise to conflict between their British national and Catholic religious identities. This study examines the ways in which this problematic history is addressed by three twentieth-century British authors: David Jones, Evelyn Waugh and Muriel Spark. Focusing on works by these writers, in which issues of national and religious identity are particularly prominent, the author argues that they share a reconciliatory approach to the matter of British and Catholic identity, an approach derived from the Catholic tradition and inspired by ideas such as those of Newman. This allows the writers to see ostensibly conflicting identities in the light of their contribution towards ultimate harmony in the life of the individual or community. The theory of reconciliation espoused by Jones, Waugh and Spark is contrasted with the views expressed by G. K. Chesterton and Graham Greene, who also write from a British and Catholic perspective, but arrive at very different conclusions.
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