The Resource Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931, James Emmett Ryan
Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931, James Emmett Ryan
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- Summary
- Roman Catholic writers in colonial America played only a minority role in debates about religion, politics, morality, national identity, and literary culture. However, the commercial print revolution of the nineteenth century, combined with the arrival of many European Catholic immigrants, provided a vibrant evangelical nexus in which Roman Catholic print discourse would thrive among a tightly knit circle of American writers and readers. James Emmett Ryan's pathbreaking study follows the careers of important nineteenth-century religionists including Orestes Brownson, Isaac Hecker, Anna Hanson Dorsey, and Cardinal James Gibbons, tracing the distinctive literature that they created during the years that non-Catholic writers like Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson were producing iconic works of American literature. Faithful Passages also reveals new dimensions in American religious literary culture by moving beyond the antebellum period to consider how the first important cohort of Catholic writers shaped their message for subsequent generations of readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perhaps most strikingly, Ryan shows that by the early twentieth century, Roman Catholic themes and traditions in American literature would be advanced in complex ways by mainstream, non-Catholic modernist writers like Kate Chopin and Willa Cather. Catholic literary culture in the United States took shape in a myriad of ways and at the hands of diverse participants. The process by which Roman Catholic ideas, themes, and moralities were shared and adapted by writers with highly differentiated beliefs, Ryan contends, illuminates a surprising fluidity of religious commitment and expression in early U.S. literary culture.-from back cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
- Contents
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- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and Catholic Criticism; 2. Print Evangelism: Father Hecker's American Mission; 3. Entering the Mainstream: The Fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey; 4. Sentimental Catechism: James Gibbons and Literary Devotionalism; 5. Trading Religion for Feminism: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's Bayou Catholics; 6. "A Kind Woman in Heaven": Willa Cather's Religious Aesthetic; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Isbn
- 9781299192256
- Label
- Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931
- Title
- Faithful passages
- Title remainder
- American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931
- Statement of responsibility
- James Emmett Ryan
- Subject
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- American literature -- Catholic authors
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Catholic Church
- Catholic Church -- In literature
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics in literature
- Christian literature, American
- Christian literature, American -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Roman Catholic writers in colonial America played only a minority role in debates about religion, politics, morality, national identity, and literary culture. However, the commercial print revolution of the nineteenth century, combined with the arrival of many European Catholic immigrants, provided a vibrant evangelical nexus in which Roman Catholic print discourse would thrive among a tightly knit circle of American writers and readers. James Emmett Ryan's pathbreaking study follows the careers of important nineteenth-century religionists including Orestes Brownson, Isaac Hecker, Anna Hanson Dorsey, and Cardinal James Gibbons, tracing the distinctive literature that they created during the years that non-Catholic writers like Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson were producing iconic works of American literature. Faithful Passages also reveals new dimensions in American religious literary culture by moving beyond the antebellum period to consider how the first important cohort of Catholic writers shaped their message for subsequent generations of readers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Perhaps most strikingly, Ryan shows that by the early twentieth century, Roman Catholic themes and traditions in American literature would be advanced in complex ways by mainstream, non-Catholic modernist writers like Kate Chopin and Willa Cather. Catholic literary culture in the United States took shape in a myriad of ways and at the hands of diverse participants. The process by which Roman Catholic ideas, themes, and moralities were shared and adapted by writers with highly differentiated beliefs, Ryan contends, illuminates a surprising fluidity of religious commitment and expression in early U.S. literary culture.-from back cover
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ryan, James Emmett
- Dewey number
- 810.9/921282
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PS153.C3
- LC item number
- R93 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Studies in American thought and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Catholic Church
- American literature
- Christian literature, American
- Catholics
- Catholics in literature
- Catholic Church
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American literature
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics
- Christian literature, American
- Literature
- United States
- Label
- Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931, James Emmett Ryan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-240) and index
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- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and Catholic Criticism; 2. Print Evangelism: Father Hecker's American Mission; 3. Entering the Mainstream: The Fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey; 4. Sentimental Catechism: James Gibbons and Literary Devotionalism; 5. Trading Religion for Feminism: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's Bayou Catholics; 6. "A Kind Woman in Heaven": Willa Cather's Religious Aesthetic; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Control code
- 828720547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781299192256
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
- ebr10659934
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 450475
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828720547
- Label
- Faithful passages : American Catholicism in literary culture, 1844-1931, James Emmett Ryan
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-240) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Orestes Brownson in Young America: Popular Books and Catholic Criticism; 2. Print Evangelism: Father Hecker's American Mission; 3. Entering the Mainstream: The Fiction of Jedediah Huntington and Anna Hanson Dorsey; 4. Sentimental Catechism: James Gibbons and Literary Devotionalism; 5. Trading Religion for Feminism: Kate O'Flaherty Chopin's Bayou Catholics; 6. "A Kind Woman in Heaven": Willa Cather's Religious Aesthetic; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index
- Control code
- 828720547
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 247 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781299192256
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- ebr10659934
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 450475
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)828720547
Subject
- American literature -- Catholic authors
- American literature -- Catholic authors | History and criticism
- Catholic Church
- Catholic Church -- In literature
- Catholics -- Intellectual life
- Catholics -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Catholics in literature
- Catholics in literature
- Christian literature, American
- Christian literature, American -- History and criticism
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- Literature
- United States
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