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New. The Catholic Imagination in American Literature is a straightforward investigation of thirteen American Catholic writers. Ross Labrie confines his study to Catholic literature between 1940 and 1980, a period in which Catholic culture was relatively insular within the greater world of American culture. Labrie's list includes 'cradle' Catholics (Flannery O'Connor) alongside converts (Walker Percy); the consistently devout (Thomas Merton) beside more briefly burning flames (Robert Lowell). Some names are obvious (Caroline Gordon, J.F. Powers); others more obscure (Orestes Brownson, Paul Horgan). Central to all is the Incarnation, the axis on which Catholic American literature rests and from which many Catholic authors drew a certain idealism that granted dignity to the individual. The church as intermediary between God and humanity and the belief in the community of saints gives the Catholic literature of this period a communal and prophetic dimension. Even Christendom's apparent decline was fuel for those who, in Walker Percy's words, hoped Catholicism would once again become a 'saving remnant, a sign of contradiction, a stumbling block, a transcultural phenomenon, a pilgrim church. ' 306 pp.
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