Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
Contents
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.