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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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview