An Accidental Pope : Essays on Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh

Omtale

This collection offers insight into the political, religious, and literary themes in Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh. This includes the Catholic Church’s political role, its doctrines in the early 20th century, the interplay of individualism and conservatism, and offers new perspectives on the novel’s genre and its place in literary history.