Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-240) and index.
Contents:
Orestes Brownson in Young America: popular books and Catholic criticism -- Print evangelism: Father Hecker's American mission -- Entering the mainstream: the fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey -- Sentimental catechism: James Gibbons and literary devotionalism -- Trading religion for feminism: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's bayou Catholics -- "A kind woman in heaven": Willa Cather's religious aesthetic.
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