scholarly journals The Catholic Revival in English Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol IX(257) (75) ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
O. Boinitska
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Solid Ground ◽  
Wide Readership ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Number Of Authors

The article deals with research of the Catholic revival as a remarkable literary movement that amalgamated a number of authors who discussed problems of the Roman Catholicism in the works of various forms – from serious theological apologies to the popular genres like G.K. Chesterton's detective stories. Such Catholic novelists like Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene appeal to the wide readership and interpret the problem of faith in its complex ambivalence, actuality, psychological depth. Whilst Evelyn Waugh is in search for a solid ground in the Old Faith as an alternative to the modern anarchy and chaos, Graham Greene emphasizes on the faith's conflicting ambiguities and contradictions.

The priest in the novels of Graham Greene

Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-92
Author(s):  
David Jasper
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Pascal’S Wager

The priestly figure in Graham Greene’s fiction may or may not wear a clerical collar. But through such characters salvation may be glimpsed not only through faith but through doubt and human weakness. Saints and sinners are not far apart. Pascal’s ‘wager’ is also ever present in these novels that reflect the ambiguities of Greene’s conversion to Roman Catholicism.

REALISM IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (12) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Latifa Karam Ahmadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
William Makepeace Thackeray ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Literary Trend

In England, realism was formed very quickly, because it appeared immediately after the Enlightenment, and its formation occurred almost simultaneously with the development of Romanticism, which did not hinder the success of the new literary movement. The peculiarity of English literature is that in it romanticism and realism coexisted and enriched each other. Examples include the works of two writers, Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Bronte. However, the discovery and confirmation of realism in English literature is primarily associated with the legacy of Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863). The works of Charles Dickens differ not only in the strengthening of the real social moment, but also in the previous realist literature. Dickens has a profoundly negative effect on bourgeois reality. Key words: England, realism, literary trend, bourgeois society, utopia, unjust life, artistic description

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Stewart Mottram
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Church Reform ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Temple ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
The Church

This chapter introduces the book as a whole, tracing the history of protestant iconoclasm and ruin creation across the long reformation, from the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s to the disestablishment of the English protestant church in the 1650s. It focuses attention on the poet George Herbert, whose poems, in The Temple (1633), on aspects of church interiors bear witness to the sanctioned iconoclasm of successive Tudor governments—iconoclasm that had broken altars, upended statues, and whitewashed church walls. Herbert was a protestant minister whose poetry celebrates the church established under Elizabeth I, defining its reformed appearance as a middle ground—‘Neither too mean, nor yet too gay’—between Genevan Calvinism and Roman catholicism. But Herbert’s poetry also reveals anxieties about the future of English protestantism—besieged not only by catholic plots but also by puritan and presbyterian clamours for further church reform. Herbert’s anxieties over this twofold threat to the English church are at once anti-catholic and anti-iconoclastic. Although Herbert celebrates the protestant reforms that had dissolved monasteries and destroyed catholic shrines, his poetry also attacks puritans, whose dissatisfaction with the half-hearted reforms of the Elizabethan settlement sought in Herbert’s eyes to ruin the church from within. Herbert’s paranoid poetry provides a keynote for this study’s exploration of the ruined churches and monasteries represented in early modern English literature—ruins, the study argues, that betray similar anxieties about the consequences of catholic plots and puritan iconoclasm for the fate of the English church in its formative century.

Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan: Priest and Novelist

2012 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 397-422
Author(s):  
Sheridan Gilley
Keyword(s):  
Anthony Trollope ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Irish Immigrants ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Literary Canons ◽  
Modern Era

‘The primary object of a novelist is to please’, said Anthony Trollope, but he also wanted to show vice punished and virtue rewarded. More roundly, Somerset Maugham declared that pleasing is the sole purpose of art in general and of the novel in particular, although he granted that novels have been written for other reasons. Indeed, good novels usually embody a worldview, even if only an anarchic or atheist one, and the religious novel is not the only kind to have a dogma at its heart. There is the further issue of literary merit, which certain modern Catholic novelists such as Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene have achieved, giving the lie to Newman’s assertion that in an English Protestant culture, a Catholic literature is impossible. But Newman and his fellow cardinal Wiseman both wrote novels; Wiseman’s novel, Fabiola, with its many translations, had an enthusiastic readership in the College of Cardinals, and was described by the archbishop of Milan as ‘a good book with the success of a bad one’. Victorian Ireland was a predominantly anglophone Catholic country, and despite poor literacy rates into the modern era, the three thousand novels in 1940 in the Dublin Central Catholic Library indicate a sizeable literary culture, comparable to the cultures of other Churches. The ‘literary canons’ who contributed to this literature around 1900 included the Irishman Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan, the subject of this essay; another Irishman, Canon Joseph Guinan, who wrote eight novels on Irish rural life; Canon William Barry, the son of Irish immigrants in London, whose masterpiece was the best-selling feminist novel, The New Antigone; Henry E. Dennehy, commended by Margaret Maison in her classic study of the Victorian religious novel; and the prolific Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson, the convert son of an archbishop of Canterbury. Catholic writers were often ignored by the makers of the contemporary Irish literary revival, non-Catholics anxious to separate nationalism from Catholicism (sometimes by appealing to the nation’s pre-Christian past), but this Catholic subculture is now being studied.

Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh

2010 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-265
Author(s):  
Donat Gallagher ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linden Bicket
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
History Of ◽  
Creative Vision ◽  
Green World

For Scottish Catholic writers of the twentieth century, faith was the key influence on both their artistic process and creative vision. Many of these writers trod in the footsteps of Graham Green, Evelyn Waugh and J. R R. Tolkien by converting to Catholicism. This book offers an absorbing history of the uncharted territory that is Scottish Catholic fiction. By focussing on one of the best-known of Scotland’s literary converts, George Mackay Brown, this book explores both the uniquely Scottish Catholic modernist movement of the twentieth century and the particularities of Brown’s writing which have been routinely overlooked by previous studies. George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination provides sustained and illuminating close readings of key texts in Brown’s corpus, and also discusses the importance of Brown’s unpublished early works, manuscripts and letters. It includes detailed comparisons between Brown’s writing and an established canon of Catholic writers, including Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and Flannery O’Connor. Ultimately, this book contextualises Brown’s place within Scottish Catholic writing, while revealing that Brown’s imagination extended far beyond the ‘small green world’ of Orkney, and embraced a universal human experience.

Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Mexico

Renascence ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Michael G. Brennan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene

scholarly journals A Conversation with Martin Stannard and Barbara Cooke

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Annabel Williams ◽  
Annabel Williams
Keyword(s):  
English Literature ◽  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Literary Biography ◽  
East Anglia ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Research Associate ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Contextualisation

Martin Stannard is Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Leicester. He read for his first degree in English at Warwick (1967-70), before taking an MA at Sussex University, and a DPhil at Oxford. Professor Stannard’s two-volume literary biography of Evelyn Waugh (1986, 1992), and his biography of Muriel Spark (2009) are essential reading for Waugh and Spark scholars, and are each studies in the value of historical contextualisation for appreciating the literary oeuvre of a writer. Stannard’s 1995 Norton Critical Edition of Ford Madox Ford’s modernist novel, The Good Soldier, similarly brings context to bear through his rigorous textual editing, annotation and critical apparatus. Stannard is currently the Principal Investigator for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh project, which is supported by a grant of  £822,000 from the AHRC, and which will see Oxford University Press publish 43 scholarly edition volumes of Waugh – the first of which appears next year. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Waugh’s death.Dr Barbara Cooke also teaches at the School of English at the University of Leicester. She received a BA and MA from Warwick (dates), and a PhD in Creative and Critical writing from the University of East Anglia for her interdisciplinary thesis Oil Men: the Twinned Lives of Arnold Wilson and Morris Young. Dr. Cooke is Research Associate for the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh, providing a vital link between the project's 23 editors, of which she is one, editing Waugh’s autobiography A Little Learning (1964).

Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh: “Catholic Novelists”

1990 ◽  
pp. 5-37
Author(s):  
Donald Greene
Keyword(s):  
Evelyn Waugh ◽  
Graham Greene
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