Fears and fascinations : representing Catholicism in the American South /
Looking at the works of diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, this book focuses on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within Southern literature and culture. It contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and Southern lit...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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New York :
Fordham University Press
2005.
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| Editie: | 1st ed. |
| Online toegang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x02xh |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Catholic miscegenations : the cultural legacy of Les cenelles
- Medieval yearnings : a Catholicism for whites in nineteenth-century Southern literature
- The pleasures of decadence : Catholicism in Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, and Anne Rice
- Agrarian Catholics : the Catholic turn in Southern literature
- Toward Catholicism as lifestyle : Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, and Rebecca Wells.