Lexington Books
Pages: 420
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-1640-1 • Hardback • April 2007 • $179.00 • (£138.00)
978-0-7391-1641-8 • Paperback • April 2007 • $68.99 • (£53.00)
Marian E. Crowe is a visiting scholar in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Chapter 1 The Theory of the Catholic Novel
Chapter 2 The History of the Catholic Novel in England
Chapter 3 The English Catholic Novel Today:
Part 4 Alice Thomas Ellis
Chapter 5 Strange Doings in Chelsea:The 27th Kingdom
Chapter 6 In the Bleak Midwinter:The Birds of the Air
Chapter 7 A Cosmic Comedian:Unexplained Laughter
Part 8 David LodgeI
Chapter 9 Intimations of Immortality:Paradise News
Chapter 10 Re-Inventing Catholicism:How Far Can You Go?
Chapter 11 Angst Meets Comedy:Therapy
Part 12 Sara Maitland
Chapter 13 Women of Faith:Daughter of Jerusalem
Chapter 14 Through Wilderness to Freedom:Virgin TerritoryH
Part 15 Piers Paul Read
Chapter 16 Holding on to the Good: Brittle Joys
Chapter 17 The Absurdity of Being Polish:Polonaise
Chapter 18 A Rebel with a Cause:Monk Dawson
Chapter 19 The Mystery of the Resurrection:On the Third Day
Chapter 20 Conclusion: A Future for the English Catholic Novel?
Marian Crowe persuasively argues the case for the Catholic novel in this enthusiastic and well-researched book.
— Ian Ker, University of Oxford