Fears and fascinations
"This book charts what has been a largely unexplored literary landscape, looking at the work of such diverse writers as the gens de couleur libre poets of antebellum New Orleans, Kate Chopin, Mark Twain, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and John Kennedy Toole, Haddox shows that Catholicism and its Church have always been a presence, albeit in different ways, in the southern cultural tradition."--Jacket.