{"product_id":"american-catholic-arts-and-fictions-paul-giles-9780521057738","title":"American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics","description":"Paul Giles describes how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds such as Orestes Brownson, Theodore Dreiser, Mary McCarthy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Altman. The book also explores how Catholicism was represented and mythologized by other American writers. By highlighting the recurring themes and preoccupations of American Catholic fictions, Giles challenges many of the accepted ideas about the centrality of Romanticism to the American literary canon. He reconstructs the different social, historical, and philosophical contexts from which aesthetics in the \"Catholic\" tradition have emerged, and shows how these stand in an oblique relationship to the assumptions of the American Enlightenment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Giles,Giles Paul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0521057736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780521057738\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.26d","brand":"Paul Giles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47421941678335,"sku":"9780521057738","price":53.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0cc61948-9394-404c-bf84-292023e0d795.jpg?v=1761527303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-catholic-arts-and-fictions-paul-giles-9780521057738","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}