Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1987. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the cultural work of Catholic literature -- U.S. Catholic literary aesthetics -- Modernisms literary and theological -- Declining oppositions -- The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century -- Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own" -- Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice" -- Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern -- Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness -- Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.
Series:
Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America
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