Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : sacrament, sacramental, and the sacred in her fiction / edited by Joanne Halleran McMullen and Jon Parrish Peede. [print]

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : an introduction Jon Parrish Peede -- Real presence : Flannery O'Connor and the saints W.A. Sessions -- The hylomorphic sacramentalism of "Parker's back" / Helen R. Andretta -- Flannery O'Connor and the displaced sacrament John F. Desmond -- Beholding the handmaids : Catholic womanhood and "The comforts of home" / Robert Donahoo -- Flannery O'Connor and the cartoon catechism Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner -- Partaking of the sacraments with Blake and O'Connor : a reading Stephen C. Behrendt -- "The bottom rail is on the top" : race and "theological whiteness" in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction Timothy P. Caron -- Christian but not Catholic : baptism in Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Joanne Halleran McMullen -- The scandalous baptism of Harry Ashfield : Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Ralph C. Wood -- Flannery O'Connor and the discernment of Catholic fiction John R. May.

"This book offers essays by leading scholars who have advanced the codification of O'Connor as a writer preoccupied with religious, and especially Catholic, theories. In counterbalance, the collection presents voices of sharp dissent. These scholars find themselves at odds with O'Connor's own interpretations and with much of the existing scholarship concerning her work." "The promise of such a diverse collection rests in the dialogues between and among their essays."--Jacket.