All Good Books Are Catholic Books : Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America Series .
- Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Cultural Work of Catholic Literature -- 1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics -- 2. Modernisms Literary and Theological -- 3. Declining Oppositions -- 4. The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century -- 5. Censorship in the Land of "Thinking on One's Own" -- 6. Art and Freedom in the Era of "The Church of Your Choice" -- 7. Reclaiming the Modernists, Reclaiming the Modern -- 8. Peculiarly Possessed of the Modern Consciousness -- Epilogue: The Abrogation of the Index -- Notes -- Index.
Una M. Cadegan shows how the Catholic Church's official position on literary culture developed from World War I to Vatican II in 1965.
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Catholic Church -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Catholic literature -- History and criticism. Catholic literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 20th century. Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Censorship -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church. Modernism (Christian theology) -- Catholic Church.