The Fear of Catholic Contamination at the Heart of American Individualism
Farrell O'Gorman, Professor of English at Belmont Abbey College, demonstrates how literary classics shape American identity by using Catholicism as a foil.
Farrell O’Gorman
Farrell O’Gorman is professor of English at Belmont Abbey College. He is the author of Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction and, most recently, Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination from University of Notre Dame Press.