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All Good Books Are Catholic Books : Print Culture, Censorship, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century America /

Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to ques...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cadegan, Una M., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.