Preface \ Section One: Introductory - 1. Clearing the Decks: An approach to English 'Catholic' literature \ 2. The Background to the Catholic Revival: Catholicism and British Society in the 19th and early 20th centuries \ Section Two: The Beginnings - 3. The preparatory ground, 1840-1890 \ 4. A solitary genius: Gerard Manley Hopkins \ 5. The Generation of the Nineties \ Section Three: The Catholic Novel before Greene and Waugh (1899-1938) - 6. The novel of contemporary life \ 7. Four popular narrative genres \ 8. Techniques and themes in the novel \ Section Four: Some Religious and Political Attitudes in the period up to 1940 - 9. Authority, and Heresy \ 10. Political Catholicism \ Section Five: Three Literary Giants - 11. Graham Greene \ 12. Evelyn Waugh. \ 13. David Jones \ Section Six: Catholic Writers of the late Twentieth Century - 14. Poets \ 15. Novelists \ Conclusion \ Bibliography