What is a “Catholic” novel? This book analyzes the fiction of Graham Greene in a radically new manner, considering in depth its form and content, which rest on the oppositions between secularism and religion. Sampson challenges these distinctions, arguing that Greene has a dramatic contribution to add to their methodological premises. Chapters on Greene’s four “Catholic” novels and two of his “post-Catholic” novels are complemented by fresh insight into the critical importance of his nonfiction. The study paints an image of an inviting yet beguilingly complex literary figure.
- Cover
- BETWEEN FORM AND FAITH
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Introduction: The Uninstructed Catholic
- 1 The Ache of Modernism: Theological Aesthetics in Greene’s Nonfiction
- 2 Catholic Novels: Religious Anxieties in Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter
- 3 Creator of Heaven and Earth: Catholicism and the “Catholic” in The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair
- 4 Entertaining the Second Vatican Council: Creative Theologies in The Honorary Consul and Monsignor Quixote
- 5 Theory and Theology: Graham Greene’s Remapping of Common Ground
- Conclusion: Where Now?
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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