All good books are Catholic books print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America / [electronic resource] :
Una M. Cadegan.
- 1 online resource (page cm.)
- Cushwa Center studies of Catholicism in twentieth-century America .
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Catholic literature--History and criticism. Catholic literature--Publishing--History--United States--20th century. Catholics--Intellectual life--United States--20th century. Censorship--Religious aspects--Catholic Church. Modernism (Christian theology)--Catholic Church. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General