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Fears and Fascinations : Representing Catholicism in the American South / Thomas F. Haddox.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2006Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780823225217
  • 9780823291519
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Catholic Miscegenations: The Cultural Legacy of Les Cenelles -- 2 Medieval Yearnings: A Catholicism for Whites in Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature -- 3 The Pleasures of Decadence: Catholicism in Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, and Anne Rice -- 4 Agrarian Catholics: The Catholic Turn in Southern Literature -- 5 Toward Catholicism as Lifestyle: Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, and Rebecca Wells -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: This innovative book charts what has been a largely unexplored literary landscape, looking at the work of such diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and John Kennedy Toole. Haddox shows that Catholicism and its Church have always been a presence, albeit in different ways, in the southern cultural tradition. For some, Catholicism has been associated with miscegenation and with the political aspirations of African-Americans; for others, it has served as the model for the feudal and patriarchal society that some southern whites sought to establish; for still others, it has presented a gorgeous aesthetic spectacle associated with decadence and homoeroticism; and for still others, it has marked a "idian, do-it-yourself "lifestyle" attractive for its lack of concern with southern anxieties about honor. By focusing on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within southern literature and culture, Fears and Fascinations contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and southern literary and cultural history.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Catholic Miscegenations: The Cultural Legacy of Les Cenelles -- 2 Medieval Yearnings: A Catholicism for Whites in Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature -- 3 The Pleasures of Decadence: Catholicism in Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, and Anne Rice -- 4 Agrarian Catholics: The Catholic Turn in Southern Literature -- 5 Toward Catholicism as Lifestyle: Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, and Rebecca Wells -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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This innovative book charts what has been a largely unexplored literary landscape, looking at the work of such diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and John Kennedy Toole. Haddox shows that Catholicism and its Church have always been a presence, albeit in different ways, in the southern cultural tradition. For some, Catholicism has been associated with miscegenation and with the political aspirations of African-Americans; for others, it has served as the model for the feudal and patriarchal society that some southern whites sought to establish; for still others, it has presented a gorgeous aesthetic spectacle associated with decadence and homoeroticism; and for still others, it has marked a "idian, do-it-yourself "lifestyle" attractive for its lack of concern with southern anxieties about honor. By focusing on the shifting and contradictory ways Catholicism has signified within southern literature and culture, Fears and Fascinations contributes to a more nuanced understanding of American and southern literary and cultural history.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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