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Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950

Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950

Lothian, James

Hardcover

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 026803382X
ISBN13: 9780268033828
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: May 15 2009
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.84
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.29
Language: English

In The Making and Unmaking of the English Catholic Intellectual Community, 1910-1950, James R. Lothian examines the engagement of interwar Catholic writers and artists both with modernity in general and with the political and economic upheavals of the times in England and continental Europe. The book describes a close-knit community of Catholic intellectuals that coalesced in the aftermath of the Great War and was inspired by Hilaire Belloc's ideology. Among the more than two dozen figures considered in this volume are G. K. Chesterton, novelist Evelyn Waugh, poet and painter David Jones, sculptor Eric Gill, historian Christopher Dawson, and publishers Frank Sheed and Maisie Ward. For Catholic intellectuals who embraced Bellocianism, the response to contemporary politics was a potent combination of hostility toward parliamentary democracy, capitalism, and so-called Protestant Whig history. Belloc and his friends asserted a set of political, economic, and historiographical alternatives--favoring monarchy and Distributism, a social and economic system modeled on what Belloc took to be the ideals of medieval feudalism.

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