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The Pen and the Cross : Catholicism and English Literature, 1850-2000.
This incisive and perceptive new book concerns 'Catholic Literature' in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and 'other'. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics - often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION; 1 Clearing the Decks: An Approach to English Catholic Literature; 2 Catholicism and British Society in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; The French and British Revivals; Persecution and Penal Legislation; Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholicism; The Class Structure of the Catholic Population; SECTION TWO: THE BEGINNINGS; 3 The Preparatory Ground, 1840â#x80;#x93;1890; John Henry Newman; Lesser Catholic Novelists: sentimentality and overt didacticism; Two Typical Novels: Arden Massiter and Robert Orange.
- Problems of Nineteenth-Century Catholic PoetryCoventry Patmore; 4 A Solitary Genius, Gerard Manley Hopkins; 5 The Generation of the Nineties; A False Start: aesthetic Catholicism; A Catholic Flowering: three remarkable religious poets; SECTION THREE: THE CATHOLIC NOVEL BEFORE GREENE AND WAUGH, 1899â#x80;#x93;1938; 6 Moral Dilemmas: The Novel of Contemporary Life; Mrs Wilfrid Ward (1864â#x80;#x93;1932); Robert Hugh Benson (1871â#x80;#x93;1914); Maurice Baring (1874â#x80;#x93;1945); The Periphery: some novels by Catholics; 7 Gripping Adventures and Sensational Fantasies: Four Popular Narrative Genres.
- Visions of the Past: the historical novelVisions of the Future: utopian/dystopian fantasies; Visions of the Supernatural: ghost stories; The Detective Story â#x80;#x93; Chestertonâ#x80;#x99;s Father Brown; 8 Liturgical Ceremonies, Tacky Aesthetics and Class Distinctions: Some Themes in the English Novel; A Major French Preoccupation: the miraculous and vicarious suffering; A Shared Preoccupation: the â#x80;#x98;explicatorsâ#x80;#x99;; A British Preoccupation: the liturgy; A British Preoccupation: objects of devotion; A British Preoccupation: class.
- SECTION FOUR: SOME RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL ATTITUDES IN THE PERIOD UP TO 19409 Authority and Heresy; Authority; Modernism; Anglicanism and Protestantism; 10 Modern Crusaders: Catholicism and Politics, 1900â#x80;#x93;1940; France and Britain; Rolfe and Benson; Belloc and Chesterton, and a Younger Generation of Catholic Thinkers; The Fascist Temptation; The Spanish Civil War; SECTION FIVE: THREE OUTSTANDING FIGURES; 11 Graham Greene: A Pivotal Figure; Greeneâ#x80;#x99;s Early Thrillers; Catholic Influences; Les Anges noirs and Brighton Rock: Mauriac and Greene.
- Vicarious Suffering and â#x80;#x98;Vicarious Damnationâ#x80;#x99;: a misinterpretation of PéguyThe â#x80;#x98;Reporterâ#x80;#x99; becomes a â#x80;#x98;Leader- Writerâ#x80;#x99;: The End of the Affair; The Later Novels; 12 Evelyn Waugh: The Culmination of a Tradition; Waugh before Brideshead Revisited; Brideshead Revisited; The Later Novels; 13 David Jones: The Meaning of Signs; Early Life: painter and sculptor; In Parenthesis (1937); Other Writings before The Anathemata; The Anathemata (1952); SECTION SIX: NEW WINE IN NEW BOTTLES: CATHOLIC WRITERS OF THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY; 14 A Revival of Religious Poetry.