Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton.

• Introduction: The Cultural Work of Catholic Literature1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics2. Modernisms Literary and Theological3. Declining Oppositions4. The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century5. Censorship in the Land of "Thinking on One's Own"6. Art and Freedom in the Era of "The Church of Your Choice"7. Reclaiming the Modernists, Reclaiming the Modern8. Peculiarly Possessed of the Modern ConsciousnessEpilogue: The Abrogation of the IndexNotesIndex

Cadegan adds to the body of recent scholarship that seeks to explain the complex relationship between American Catholicism and American intellectual culture in the years leading up to the Second Vatican Council.... This is a thought-provoking and inventive book.- Arnold Sparr (The Catholic Historical Review) The clash of religious faith with Enlightenment thought is the great drama of modern Western intellectual history. Una M. Cadegan's All Good Books Are Catholic Books recounts a particularly fractious and fascinating moment in that epic saga, the struggle of American Catholics—lay and religious, faithful and lapsed—with modernity. In particular, Cadegan aims to demonstrate that 'literature and literary culture played a key role' in this encounter, allowing Catholics neither to acquiesce to nor fully resist the moral, cultural, and intellectual developments of the age, but rather accommodate them, ultimately, 'on their own terms.' Cadegan refreshingly refuses to cast the Roman Catholic Church as villain in a larger tale of intellectual and spiritual liberation. Cadegan makes revealing connections throughout between theology and other intellectual work. For those seeking to understand Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century, and the Catholic encounter with American modernity more broadly, there is no better place to start.- Matthew S. Hedstrom (American Historical Review) Trying to embrace the subject of American Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century can stretch a researcher to her fingertips. Una M. Cadegan shows her range in ably canvassing a broad swath of writers and critical commentators who left their mark between World War I and the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).(Journal of American History)

Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton.

• Introduction: The Cultural Work of Catholic Literature1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics2. Modernisms Literary and Theological3. Declining Oppositions4. The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century5. Censorship in the Land of "Thinking on One's Own"6. Art and Freedom in the Era of "The Church of Your Choice"7. Reclaiming the Modernists, Reclaiming the Modern8. Peculiarly Possessed of the Modern ConsciousnessEpilogue: The Abrogation of the IndexNotesIndex

Cadegan adds to the body of recent scholarship that seeks to explain the complex relationship between American Catholicism and American intellectual culture in the years leading up to the Second Vatican Council.... This is a thought-provoking and inventive book.- Arnold Sparr (The Catholic Historical Review) The clash of religious faith with Enlightenment thought is the great drama of modern Western intellectual history. Una M. Cadegan's All Good Books Are Catholic Books recounts a particularly fractious and fascinating moment in that epic saga, the struggle of American Catholics—lay and religious, faithful and lapsed—with modernity. In particular, Cadegan aims to demonstrate that 'literature and literary culture played a key role' in this encounter, allowing Catholics neither to acquiesce to nor fully resist the moral, cultural, and intellectual developments of the age, but rather accommodate them, ultimately, 'on their own terms.' Cadegan refreshingly refuses to cast the Roman Catholic Church as villain in a larger tale of intellectual and spiritual liberation. Cadegan makes revealing connections throughout between theology and other intellectual work. For those seeking to understand Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century, and the Catholic encounter with American modernity more broadly, there is no better place to start.- Matthew S. Hedstrom (American Historical Review) Trying to embrace the subject of American Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century can stretch a researcher to her fingertips. Una M. Cadegan shows her range in ably canvassing a broad swath of writers and critical commentators who left their mark between World War I and the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).(Journal of American History)

Una M. Cadegan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton.

• Introduction: The Cultural Work of Catholic Literature1. U.S. Catholic Literary Aesthetics2. Modernisms Literary and Theological3. Declining Oppositions4. The History and Function of Catholic Censorship, as Told to the Twentieth Century5. Censorship in the Land of "Thinking on One's Own"6. Art and Freedom in the Era of "The Church of Your Choice"7. Reclaiming the Modernists, Reclaiming the Modern8. Peculiarly Possessed of the Modern ConsciousnessEpilogue: The Abrogation of the IndexNotesIndex

Cadegan adds to the body of recent scholarship that seeks to explain the complex relationship between American Catholicism and American intellectual culture in the years leading up to the Second Vatican Council.... This is a thought-provoking and inventive book.- Arnold Sparr (The Catholic Historical Review) The clash of religious faith with Enlightenment thought is the great drama of modern Western intellectual history. Una M. Cadegan's All Good Books Are Catholic Books recounts a particularly fractious and fascinating moment in that epic saga, the struggle of American Catholics—lay and religious, faithful and lapsed—with modernity. In particular, Cadegan aims to demonstrate that 'literature and literary culture played a key role' in this encounter, allowing Catholics neither to acquiesce to nor fully resist the moral, cultural, and intellectual developments of the age, but rather accommodate them, ultimately, 'on their own terms.' Cadegan refreshingly refuses to cast the Roman Catholic Church as villain in a larger tale of intellectual and spiritual liberation. Cadegan makes revealing connections throughout between theology and other intellectual work. For those seeking to understand Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century, and the Catholic encounter with American modernity more broadly, there is no better place to start.- Matthew S. Hedstrom (American Historical Review) Trying to embrace the subject of American Catholic literary culture in the twentieth century can stretch a researcher to her fingertips. Una M. Cadegan shows her range in ably canvassing a broad swath of writers and critical commentators who left their mark between World War I and the immediate aftermath of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).(Journal of American History)