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20: 140:, although a convinced Catholic, "is not generally perceived to be one of the key protagonists of the Catholic literary revival". In his writing, his own Catholic convictions and his use of Catholic themes are far less explicit than was the case for the other writers mentioned. There is, however, a growing tendency to look at Tolkien within the English Catholic literary tradition of his time. 45:
allegiance and themes among leading literary figures in France and England, roughly in the century from 1860 to 1960. This often involved conversion to Catholicism or a conversion-like return to the Catholic Church. The phenomenon is sometimes extended to the United States.
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Due to the influence of Catholic literature from England in the United States, the concept of "Catholic revival" is sometimes extended to include American authors such as
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The main figures who have been seen as constituting a revival of a leading Catholic presence in national literary life in England include
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To Promote, Defend, and Redeem: The Catholic Literary Revival and the Cultural Transformation of American Catholicism, 1920–1960
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Although distinct, a movement towards explicit religious loyalty and themes in Anglican and Anglo-Catholic writers such as
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The Catholic Revival in English Literature (1845–1961): Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, Greene, Waugh
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The Catholic Poetry Society was founded in 1931 to further a tradition of Catholic poetry. They published
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The Reactionary Revolution: The Catholic Revival in French Literature 1870–1914
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is sometimes linked to the Catholic literary revival as a broader phenomenon.
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Catholic Literary Giants: A Field Guide to the Catholic Literary Landscape
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A Hidden Presence: The Catholic Imagination of J. R. R. Tolkien
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French authors sometimes grouped in a Catholic literary revival include
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Catholic Literature and Secularization in France and England, 1880–1914
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E.g., Owen Dudley Edwards, "Gollum, Frodo and the Catholic Novel", in
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is a term that has been applied to a movement towards explicitly
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Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief
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The Maritain Factor: Taking Religion into Interwar Modernism
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Index


George Bernard Shaw
Hilaire Belloc
G. K. Chesterton
Catholic
Léon Bloy
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Charles Péguy
Paul Claudel
Georges Bernanos
François Mauriac
Jacques Maritain
Gabriel Marcel
John Henry Newman
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hilaire Belloc
G. K. Chesterton
Alfred Noyes
Robert Hugh Benson
Ronald Knox
Muriel Spark
Graham Greene
Evelyn Waugh
J. R. R. Tolkien
George MacDonald
T. S. Eliot
C. S. Lewis
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Day
Thomas Merton

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