Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. Shades of Redemption in Alice McDermott’s Novels
2. How Far Can You Go? to Therapy: Catholicism and Postmodernism in the Novels of David Lodge
3. “Descending Theology”: The Poetry of Mary Karr
4. An Irish Catholic Novel?: The Example of Brian Mooreand John McGahern
5. The Never-Ending Reformation: Miguel Delibes’s The Heretic
6. Some Contexts for Current Catholic Women’s Memoir: Patricia Hampl and Her Contemporaries
7. “A Ransom of Cholers”: Catastrophe, Consolation, and Catholicism in Jon Hassler’s Staggerford, North of Hope, and The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy’s Nephew
8. Our Litany: The Varied Voices and Common Vision of Three Contemporary Catholic Poets
9. Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote: A Pilgrimage of Doubt and Reason toward Faith and Belief
10. Contemporary British Catholic Writers: Alice Thomas Ellis, Piers Paul Read, William Brodrick, and Jonathan Tulloch
11. The Contemporary Catholic Bildungsroman: Passionate Conviction in Shūsaku Endō’s The Samurai and Mary Gordon’s Men and Angels
12. Art with Its Largesse and Its Own Restraint”: The Sacramental Poetics of Elizabeth Jennings and Les Murray
13 The Estrangement of Emilio Sandoz, S.J.: Othering in Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow
14. Restoring the Imago Dei: Transcendental Realism inthe Fiction of Michael D. O’Brien
15. Maiden Mothers and Little Sisters: The Convent Novel Grows Up
Bibliography
About the Editor and Contributors
Index