A bold, indispensable and revisionary text for the benefit of readers and critics of major and dominant motifs in the unfolding history of American fiction.
George Lensing
George Lensing is the Mann Family Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Stand by to Stand by’
Comparing himself to Flannery O 8217 Connor the novelist Walker Percy describes himself as a writer of the Catholic perspective in the 20th century From a Catholic perspective at least Christianity underwrites those very properties of the novel without which there is no novel I am speaking of
