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A critical study of classic American novels, Transgression and Redemption explores Catholicism in The Scarlet Letter, The Great Gatsby, The Professor's House, The Awakening, and The Sun Also Rises.

Southern Italian emigration to the United States peaked a full century ago, descendents are now fourth and fifth generation, dispersed from their old industrial neighborhoods, professionalized, and fully integrated into the melting pot. Surely the social historians are right: Italian Americans are fading into the twilight of their ethnicity. So, why is the American imagination enthralled by The Sopranos, and other portraits of Italian-ness?

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What does it mean to be--or to have been raised--Catholic in America today? This collection of articles by formidable scholars and writers--each of whom have come of age after the Second Vatican Council--make it clear that being Catholic is not simply a matter of going to confession or Mass. Their explorations contribute to Catholicism's remaking of cultural identity in the United States.

A collection of informed and spirited essays on Catholic lay practices not commonly recognized or, sanctioned. It includes pieces by Mary Gordon, Andrew Sullivan, Frank Lentricchia, and interviews with Camile Paglia and Richard Rodriguez. This volume repr