The Pen and the Cross : Catholicism and English Literature 1850 - 2000.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Clearing the Decks: An Approach to English Catholic Literature -- 2 Catholicism and British Society in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- The French and British Revivals -- Persecution and Penal Legislation -- Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholicism -- The Class Structure of the Catholic Population -- SECTION TWO: THE BEGINNINGS -- 3 The Preparatory Ground, 1840-1890 -- John Henry Newman -- Lesser Catholic Novelists: sentimentality and overt didacticism -- Two Typical Novels: Arden Massiter and Robert Orange -- Problems of Nineteenth-Century Catholic Poetry -- Coventry Patmore -- 4 A Solitary Genius, Gerard Manley Hopkins -- 5 The Generation of the Nineties -- A False Start: aesthetic Catholicism -- A Catholic Flowering: three remarkable religious poets -- SECTION THREE: THE CATHOLIC NOVEL BEFORE GREENE AND WAUGH, 1899-1938 -- 6 Moral Dilemmas: The Novel of Contemporary Life -- Mrs Wilfrid Ward (1864-1932) -- Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) -- Maurice Baring (1874-1945) -- The Periphery: some novels by Catholics -- 7 Gripping Adventures and Sensational Fantasies: Four Popular Narrative Genres -- Visions of the Past: the historical novel -- Visions of the Future: utopian/dystopian fantasies -- Visions of the Supernatural: ghost stories -- The Detective Story - Chesterton's Father Brown -- 8 Liturgical Ceremonies, Tacky Aesthetics and Class Distinctions: Some Themes in the English Novel -- A Major French Preoccupation: the miraculous and vicarious suffering -- A Shared Preoccupation: the 'explicators' -- A British Preoccupation: the liturgy -- A British Preoccupation: objects of devotion -- A British Preoccupation: class -- SECTION FOUR: SOME RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES IN THE PERIOD UP TO 1940 -- 9 Authority and Heresy -- Authority -- Modernism.

Anglicanism and Protestantism -- 10 Modern Crusaders: Catholicism and Politics, 1900-1940 -- France and Britain -- Rolfe and Benson -- Belloc and Chesterton, and a Younger Generation of Catholic Thinkers -- The Fascist Temptation -- The Spanish Civil War -- SECTION FIVE: THREE OUTSTANDING FIGURES -- 11 Graham Greene: A Pivotal Figure -- Greene's Early Thrillers -- Catholic Influences -- Les Anges noirs and Brighton Rock: Mauriac and Greene -- Vicarious Suffering and 'Vicarious Damnation': a misinterpretation of Péguy -- The 'Reporter' becomes a 'Leader- Writer': The End of the Affair -- The Later Novels -- 12 Evelyn Waugh: The Culmination of a Tradition -- Waugh before Brideshead Revisited -- Brideshead Revisited -- The Later Novels -- 13 David Jones: The Meaning of Signs -- Early Life: painter and sculptor -- In Parenthesis (1937) -- Other Writings before The Anathemata -- The Anathemata (1952) -- SECTION SIX: NEW WINE IN NEW BOTTLES: CATHOLIC WRITERS OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 14 A Revival of Religious Poetry -- David Gascoyne (1916-2001) -- Catholics and 'Fellow Travellers': a variety of other poets -- 15 Developments in the Catholic Novel -- Changes in the Subject Matter of the Catholic Novel -- Greene as Literary Model: a mixed picture -- Three Disparate Novelists: Antonia White, Alice Thomas Ellis and George Mackay Brown -- David Lodge -- David Lodge, Muriel Spark and the Role of the Narrator -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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