The Pen and the Cross

The Pen and the Cross

This incisive and perceptive new book concerns `Catholic Literature’ in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and `other’. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics – often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel Spark and David Jones. In every case these authors’ Catholicism was integral to their creative genius and they represent an important strand in any account of English literature.

The Pen and the Cross