All Good Books Are Catholic Books : Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.