Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931

Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931 / James Emmett Ryan.

Roman Catholic writers in colonial America played only a minority role in debates about religion, politics, morality, national identity, and literary culture. However, the commercial print revolution of the nineteenth century, combined with the arrival of many European Catholic immigrants, provided...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan, James Emmett
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Series:Studies in American thought and culture.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > In literature.
Catholic Church
American literature > Catholic authors > History and criticism.
Christian literature, American > History and criticism.
Catholics > United States > Intellectual life.
Catholics in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Catholic authors
Catholics in literature
Catholics > Intellectual life
Christian literature, American
Literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Orestes Brownson in Young America : Popular Books and Catholic Criticism
  • Print Evangelism : Father Hecker's American Mission
  • Entering the Mainstream : The Fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey
  • Sentimental Catechism : James Gibbons and Literary Devotionalism
  • Trading Religion for Feminism : Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's Bayou Catholics
  • "A Kind Woman in Heaven" : Willa Cather's Religious Aesthetic.

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