
Hailed by critics as one of the more controversial of contemporary American authors, Flannery O'Connor has been described as the most extreme Christian dualist since Dostoevsky. In this first full-length study of O'Connor's work, Browning explores the implications...

When Flannery O'Connor began writing in the early 1950's, many reviewers assumed that she was little more than a talented female Erskine Caldwell, writing in the ""Southern gothic"" mode. And indeed her work was filled with freaks, one-armed con men, and pathological killers...