Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The True country : Flannery O'Connor's sacramental view
  • The Countryside : corruptions of the spirit
  • The Presence of grace
  • Manifestations of God's grace
  • Symbols of spiritual reality
  • The Gothic impulse
  • Comic and grim laughter
  • Technique as theme : satire and irony
  • Bibliography
  • Index.