All good books are Catholic books : print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America / Una M. Cadegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cadegan, Una M., 1960- author.

Series:

Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church.

Catholic literature--History and criticism.

Catholic literature.

Catholic literature--Publishing--United States--History--20th century.

Catholics--United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Catholics.

Censorship--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Censorship.

Modernism (Christian theology)--Catholic Church.

Modernism (Christian theology).

Catholic Church--United States--History--20th century.

History.

Intellectual life.

Catholic literature--Publishing.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 230 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction : the cultural work of Catholic literature

U.S. Catholic literary aesthetics

Modernisms literary and theological

Declining oppositions

The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century

Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own"

Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice"

Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern

Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness

Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801451126

0801451124

OCLC:

827198448