1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: The Cultural Work of Catholic Literature 1
5. 1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics 20
6. 2. Modernisms Literary and Theological 47
7. 3. Declining Oppositions 64
8. 4. The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century 85
9. 5. Censorship in the Land of “Thinking on One’s Own” 104
10. 6. Art and Freedom in the Era of “The Church of Your Choice” 123
11. 7. Reclaiming the Modernists, Reclaiming the Modern 153
12. 8. Peculiarly Possessed of the Modern Consciousness 171
13. Epilogue: The Abrogation of the Index 192
14. Notes 197
15. Index 221