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Although many literary critics assert that the Catholic novel is in decline, Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: The English Catholic Novel Today argues that there is still vitality in the English Catholic novel at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Marian Crowe relates this fiction to recent developments in the post-Vatican II Church and elucidates intriguing possibilities for future Catholic fiction. In addition to discussing the theory and history of the Catholic novel, the book provides an in-depth study of four contemporary English Catholic novelists: Alice Thomas Ellis, David Lodge, Sara Maitland, and Piers Paul Read, who are among the most talented and original Catholic novelists writing in England today. Three novels by each writer are analyzed with particular attention to Catholic themes.Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth is of great interest to scholars as well as general readers in contemporary literature.
Contents
Chapter 1 The Theory of the Catholic Novel
Chapter 2 The History of the Catholic Novel in England
Chapter 3 The English Catholic Novel Today:
Part 4 Alice Thomas Ellis
Chapter 5 Strange Doings in Chelsea:The 27th Kingdom
Chapter 6 In the Bleak Midwinter:The Birds of the Air
Chapter 7 A Cosmic Comedian:Unexplained Laughter
Part 8 David LodgeI
Chapter 9 Intimations of Immortality:Paradise News
Chapter 10 Re-Inventing Catholicism:How Far Can You Go?
Chapter 11 Angst Meets Comedy:Therapy
Part 12 Sara Maitland
Chapter 13 Women of Faith:Daughter of Jerusalem
Chapter 14 Through Wilderness to Freedom:Virgin TerritoryH
Part 15 Piers Paul Read
Chapter 16 Holding on to the Good: Brittle Joys
Chapter 17 The Absurdity of Being Polish:Polonaise
Chapter 18 A Rebel with a Cause:Monk Dawson
Chapter 19 The Mystery of the Resurrection:On the Third Day
Chapter 20 Conclusion: A Future for the English Catholic Novel?
