SOURCE: "Roman Catholic Fiction," in Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America, Harvard University Press, 1981, pp. 145-67.
In the essay below, Reynolds looks at Roman Catholic fiction and its character and themes, both before 1850, when it used theological and historical polemics to persuade, and after 1850, when it began to assimilate the prevailing anti-theological secularism.
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