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American Catholic literature

American Catholic literature emerged in the early 1900s as its own genre.[1] Catholic literature is not exclusively literature written by Catholic authors or about Catholic things, but rather Catholic literature is "defined [...] by a particular Catholic perspective applied to its subject matter."[2]

  1. ^ Kellogg, Jean Defrees (1970). "Catholicism in the United States". The Vital Tradition: the Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence. Chicago: Loyola UP. pp. 154–55.
  2. ^ Reichardt, Mary R. Introduction. Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature. Vol. 1. Westport, Conn. u.a.: Greenwood, 2004. Print.

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