Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: “Practically a Protestant Form of Art?”
Part One—A Chronological Survey
1. From the First “Catholic Novelist” (Late Stuart Period) to the Victorian Revival
2. Catholic Fiction, 1900–45
3. Consolidation and Change, 1945–1962
4. 1962–1991: “Gusts, damaging storms”
Part Two—The Catholic “Difference”
5. “This alien land”
6. Catholic Chic
Part Three—The Church and the World
7. Images of the Church and the World
8. “Mixing themselves up in politics”
Part Four—“A drama of good and evil that other writers do not see”
9. Good and Evil: The Providential Plot
10. “The sorrowful mysteries”
11. Sin, Sex, and Adultery
Part Five—Continuing the Story
12. The Continuing Story
Selected Bibliography
Selective Glossary of Catholic and Theological Terminology
Index