Converts : From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonagh, Melanie.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Why did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century? The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

Table of national estimates of conversions/receptions in England and Wales, 1911-2022

Introduction

chapter 1 The 1890s

chapter 2 Oscar Wilde

chapter 3 Aubrey Beardsley

chapter 4 John Gray

chapter 5 The Church in 1900

chapter 6 Gwen John

chapter 7 Lord Alfred Douglas

chapter 8 John Henry Newman and Anglo-Catholicism

chapter 9 R.H. Benson

chapter 10 G.K. Chesterton and the Chesterbelloc

chapter 11 Maurice Baring

chapter 12 The Church and the War

chapter 13 David Jones

chapter 14 Between the Wars

chapter 15 Evelyn Waugh

chapter 16 A Newspaper Controversy about Conversion

chapter 17 Graham Greene

chapter 18 The Convert Makers

chapter 19 Vincent McNabb and a Convert

chapter 20 Gain and Loss: After the War

chapter 21 Muriel Spark

chapter 22 Elizabeth Anscombe

chapter 23 Siegfried Sassoon

chapter 24 Gain and Loss: The Second Vatican Council

Epilogue

Plates

Notes

Select Bibliography

Acknowledgements

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-300-28955-3

9780300289558

OCLC:

1557766528