All good books are Catholic books [electronic resource] : print culture, censorship, and modernity in twentieth-century America / Una M. Cadegan.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the cultural work of Catholic literature -- U.S. Catholic literary aesthetics -- Modernisms literary and theological -- Declining oppositions -- The history and function of Catholic censorship, as told to the twentieth century -- Censorship in the land of "thinking on one's own" -- Art and freedom in the era of "the church of your choice" -- Reclaiming the modernists, reclaiming the modern -- Peculiarly possessed of the modern consciousness -- Epilogue : the abrogation of the index.

Description based on print version record.