Catholic Literary Giants : A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape.

Intro -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Converting the Culture: The Evangelizing Power of Beauty -- 1. Tradition and Conversion in Modern English Literature -- 2. Twentieth-Century England's Christian Literary Landscape -- 3. The Chesterbelloc: Examining the Beauty of the Beast -- 4. Chesterton and Saint Francis -- 5. Shades of Gray in the Shadow of Wilde -- 6. Fighting the Euro from Beyond the Grave: The Ghost of Chesterton Haunts Lord Howe -- 7. Catholicism and "Democracy" -- 8. Fascism and Chesterton -- 9. G. K. Chesterton: Champion of Orthodoxy -- 10. Hilaire Belloc in a Nutshell -- 11. Belloc's The Path to Rome -- 12. A Chip off the Old Belloc: Bob Copper In Memoriam -- 13. Maurice Baring: In the Shadow of the Chesterbelloc -- 14. R. H. Benson: Unsung Genius -- 15. Maisie Ward: Concealed with a Kiss -- 16. John Seymour: Some Novel Common Sense -- 17. Entrenched Passion: The Poetry of War -- 18. War Poets: Cutting through the Cant -- 19. Siegfried Sassoon: Poetic Pilgrimage -- 20. Emerging from the Wasteland: The Cultural Reaction to the Desert of Modernity -- 21. Edith Sitwell: Modernity and Tradition -- 22. Roy Campbell: Bombast and Fire -- 23. Roy Campbell: Religion and Politics -- 24. Campbell in Spain -- 25. Evelyn Waugh: Ultramodern to Ultramontane -- 26. Beyond the Facts of Life: Douglas Lane Patey's Biography of Evelyn Waugh -- 27. In Pursuit of the Greene-Eyed Monster: The Quest for Graham Greene -- 28. Cross Purposes: Greene, Undset and Bernanos -- 29. Muggeridge Resurrected -- 30. Inklings of Grace -- 31. From the Prancing Pony to the Bird and Baby: Roy "Strider" Campbell and the Inklings -- 32. J. R. R. Tolkien: Truth and Myth -- 33. The Individual and Community in Tolkien's Middle Earth -- 34. Religion and Politics in The Lord of the Rings -- 35. Quest and Passion Play: J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth -- 36. True North.

37. The Once and Future King -- 38. Tolkien and the Catholic Literary Revival -- 39. True Myth: The Catholicism of The Lord of the Rings -- 40. Letting the Catholic Out of the Baggins -- 41. A Hidden Presence: The Catholic Imagination of J. R. R. Tolkien -- 42. From War to Mordor: J. R. R. Tolkien and World War I -- 43. Divine Mercy in The Lord of the Rings -- 44. Resurrecting Myth: A Response to Dr. Murphy's "Response" -- 45. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Successes and Failures of Tolkien on Film -- 46. Would Tolkien Have Given Peter Jackson's Movie the Thumbs-Up? -- 47. The Forgotten Inkling: A Personal Memoir of Owen Barfield -- 48. The Decadent Path to Christ -- 49. The Quest for the Real Oscar: A Century after His Death, Is the Real Oscar Wilde Finally Emerging from the Shadows? -- 50. Making Oscar Wild: Unmasking Oscar Wilde's Opposition to "Pathological" Gay Marriage -- 51. Truth Is Stranger Than Science Fiction -- 52. Hollywood and the "Holy War" -- 53. Three Cheers for Hollywood -- 54. Purity and Passion: Examining the Sacred Heart of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ -- 55. Paul McCartney: A Grief Observed -- 56. Above All Shadows Rides the Sun: The Poetry of Praise -- 57. The Magic of Technology -- 58. Russian Revelations -- 59. Dante: Assent's Ascent -- 60. Shakespeare: Good Will for All Men -- 61. Modern Art: Friend or Foe? -- 62. Salvador Dali: From Freud to Faith -- 63. Mr. Davey versus the Devil: A True Story -- 64. Totus Tuus: A Tribute to a Truly Holy Father -- 65. Faith and the Feminine -- 66. Our Life, Our Sweetness and Our Hope -- 67. The Presence That Christmas Presents -- Notes.

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