Table of Contents

Part 1 Chronological survey - the 19th century Catholic novel; Catholic fiction 1900-1945; 1945 to the present. Part 2 The Catholic "Difference" "This Alien Land"; Catholic chic. Part 3 The Church and the world - images of the Church and the world; "mixing themselves up in politics". Part 4 A drama of good and evil that other writers do not see" the providential plot of good and evil; the sorrowful mysteries - death, suffering and sin; sin, sex and adultery.