TITLE

REPRINTING RELIGIOUS NOVELS: LOSSES OR GAINS?

AUTHOR(S)

Knoepflmacher, U.C.

PUB. DATE

June 1977

SOURCE

Studies in the Novel;Summer77, Vol. 9 Issue 2, p217

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Literary Criticism

ABSTRACT

Analyzes religious novels. 'Perversion or the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity. A Tale of the Times,' by William John Conybeare; 'Romance of Two Worlds,' by Marie Corelli; ' Mark Wilson. The Merchant's Sheet,' by Charles B. Tayler.

ACCESSION #

8507102

Tags: RELIGION in literature;  FICTION

 

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