To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920-1960.

Abstract

Series Foreword by Henry W. Bowden Introduction Origins and Development, 1920-1935 The 1920s: A Time of Troubles Francis X. Talbot and the Catholic Literary Emergence A Revival Is Organized: Daniel A. Lord and the Sodality Literary Campaign The Revival as Reaction, I: Catholics against Modernity The Revival as Reaction, II: Newman, Chesterton, and Babbitt, Catholic Revivalists The Search for the Great American Catholic Novel, I: Catholic Fiction to 1935 Transformation, 1935-1955 The Transformation of the Catholic Literary Revival in the American Catholic College During the 1930s and 1940s Frank O'Malley: Thinker, Critic, Revivalist Yes, We Have No Bernanos. The Search for the Great American Catholic Novel, II: Catholic Fiction During the Era of Transformation Dissolution, the 1950s and After Ought There to Be a Catholic Criticism? The 1950s and the End of the Revival Bibliography Index