Complete Works Cited

Primary Sources by Flannery O’Connor

O’Connor, Flannery. “The Artificial Nigger.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 249-70.

---. “The Barber.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 15-25.

---. “A Circle in the Fire.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 175-93.

---. “The Comforts of Home.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 383-404.

---. The Complete Stories. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971.

---. “The Crop.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 33-41.

---. “The Displaced Person.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 194-235.

---. “The Enduring Chill.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 357-82.

---. “Everything That Rises Must Converge.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 405-20.

---. “Flannery O’Connor Reads ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ (1959).” ByWayofBeautyDotCom. YouTube, 2 May. 2013, https://youtu.be/sQT7y4L5aKU.

---. “The Geranium.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 3-14.

---. “Good Country People.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 271-91.

---. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 117-33.

---. “Greenleaf.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 311-34.

---. The Habit of Being. Edited by Sally Fitzgerald, New York City, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.

---. “Judgement Day.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 531-50.

---. “The Lame Shall Enter First.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 445-82.

---. “A Late Encounter with the Enemy.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 134-44.

---. “The Life You Save May Be Your Own.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 145-56.

---. Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Edited by Sally Fitzgerald and Robert Fitzgerald, New York City, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.

---. “Parker’s Back.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 510-30.

---. “The Partridge Festival.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 421-44.

---. “Revelation.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 488-509.

---. “The River.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 157-74.

---. “A Temple of the Holy Ghost.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 236-48.

---. “The Turkey.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 42-53.

---. “A View of the Woods.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 335-56.

---. “Why Do the Heathen Rage?” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 483-87.

---. “Wildcat.” The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 26-32.


Bibles and Religious Scholarship

“About Bible Gateway.” BibleGateway, Zondervan, www.biblegateway.com/about/.

“About the ESV.” ESV.org, Crossway, www.esv.org/translation/.

Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy. 1472. Translated by H. F. Cary, e-book ed., Project Gutenberg, 2005. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1008/pg1008.html.

The Apocrypha: Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised by His Majesty’s Special Command. 1992. Pitt Brevier ed., Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2017.

“Basic Prayers.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/basic-prayers.

“Books of the Bible.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, https://bible.usccb.org/bible.

Buckley, James J., et al., editors. The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Catechism of the Catholic Church. 1992. 2nd ed., Vatican City, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2019.

Cunningham, Lawrence. An Introduction to Catholicism. Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2009.

“Dante Alighieri.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 13 July 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dante/.

Dougherty, Kevin D., et al. “Congregational Diversity and Attendance in a Mainline Protestant Denomination.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 54, no. 4, 2015, pp. 668-83. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12229.

ESV Study Bible: English Standard Version. Translated by Crossway, ESV text ed., Wheaton, Crossway Bibles, 2011.

“Frequently Asked Questions: Questions about the Bible.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.usccb.org/faq.

Graves, Dan, editor. “Antony of Egypt.” Christian History Institute, https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/study/module/antony.

Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Translated by Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Tyndale House Publishers, 2015.

Holy Bible: King James Version. Edited by Bible Gateway, Zondervan, www.biblegateway.com/.

Khan, Noelle. The Meaning and Ritual of Catholic Religious Services. Fordham University, 2015, www.fordham.edu/download/downloads/id/3145/catholic_mass_fact_sheetpdf.pdf.

“The Mass: Structure and Meaning.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.usccb.org/offices/public-affairs/structure-and-meaning-mass.

McBrien, Richard P. Catholicism. San Francisco, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994.

OpenBible.info. “Topical Bible.” OpenBible.info, edited by Stephen Smith, www.openbible.info/topics/.

“Our Founder: Kenneth N. Taylor.” Tyndale, Tyndale House Publishers, www.tyndale.com/kenneth-n-taylor.

“Publishing.” Crossway, www.crossway.org/publishing/.

“San Sebastián.” National Museum of American History, Smithsonian, https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_602073.

Smith, Stephen. “Designing for Agency in Bible Study.” OpenBible.info, 13 Apr. 2019, www.openbible.info/blog/2019/04/designing-for-agency-in-bible-study/.

---. “Stephen Smith: Senior Director, Digital Products at HarperCollins Christian Publishing.” LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-smith-47184b13.

St. Jerome. The Satirical Letters of St. Jerome. Translated by Paul Carroll, e-book ed., Henry Regnery Company, 1956. https://archive.org/stream/satiricalletters027924mbp/satiricalletters027924mbp_djvu.txt.

“Subcommittee on the Catechism.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.usccb.org/committees/catechism.

Sutton, John R., and Mark Chaves. “Explaining Schism in American Protestant Denominations, 1890-1990.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 43, no. 2, June 2004, pp. 171-90. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1388121.

“Tantum Ergo.” United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/tantum-ergo.

“What is Meaning-Based Translation?” New Living Translation, Tyndale House Publishers, www.tyndale.com/nlt/meaning-based-translation.

White, Carolinne. Lives of Roman Christian Women. London, Penguin Books, 2010.

“Zondervan Divisions.” HarperCollins Christian Publishing, HarperCollins Publishers, www.harpercollinschristian.com/divisions/zondervan/.


Literary Criticism Centralizing O’Connor and Her Fiction

Andretta, Helen R. “The Hylomorphic Sacramentalism of ‘Parker’s Back.’” McMullen and Peede, pp. 41-63.

Asals, Frederick. “The Double.” Bloom, pp. 93-110.

---. “Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Lame Shall Enter First.’” The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 2, spring 1970, pp. 103-20. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26473852.

Barfield, Owen. “The Inspiration of the ‘Divine Comedy.’” Journal of Inklings Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, Oct. 2012, pp. 47-65. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/45345249.

Baumgaertner, Jill Peláez. “Flannery O’Connor and the Cartoon Catechism.” McMullen and Peede, pp. 102-16.

Behrendt, Stephen C. “Partaking of the Sacraments with Blake and O’Connor: A Reading.” McMullen and Peede, pp. 117-37.

Bloom, Harold, editor. Modern Critical Views: Flannery O’Connor. New York City, Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State UP, 1993.

Browning, Preston M., Jr. “Flannery O’Connor and the Demonic.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, spring 1973, pp. 29-41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26279133.

Burt, John. “What You Can’t Talk About.” Bloom, pp. 125-43.

Caron, Timothy P. “‘The Bottom Rail Is on the Top’: Race and ‘Theological Whiteness’ in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction.” McMullen and Peede, pp. 138-64.

Cofer, Jordan. “The ‘All-Demanding Eyes’: Following the Old Testament and New Testament Allusions in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 6, 2008, pp. 30-39. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26671134.

Desmond, John. “Flannery O’Connor and the Idolatrous Mind.” Christianity in Literature, vol. 46, no. 1, fall 1996, pp. 25-35. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1177/014833319604600104.

---. “Flannery O’Connor’s Misfit and the Mystery of Evil.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 56, no. 2, winter 2004, pp. 129-37. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.5840/renascence200456223.

Donahoo, Robert. “Beholding the Handmaids: Catholic Womanhood and ‘The Comforts of Home.’” McMullen and Peede, pp. 79-101.

Fitzgerald, Robert. “The Countryside and the True Country.” Bloom, pp. 19-30.

Fodor, Sarah J. “Marketing Flannery O’Connor: Institutional Politics and Literary Evaluation.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 12-37.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. “Gender Dialogue in O’Connor.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 57-72.

Giannone, Richard. “Displacing Gender: Flannery O’Connor’s View from the Woods.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 73-95.

Giemza, Bryan. Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State UP, 2013.

Giroux, Robert. Introduction. The Complete Stories, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. vii-xvii.

Gooch, Brad. Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor. New York, Little, Brown, 2009.

Gordon, Sarah. “‘The Crop’: Limitation, Restraint, and Possibility.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 96-120.

Humphries, Jefferson. “Proust, Flannery O’Connor, and the Aesthetic of Violence.” Bloom, pp. 111-24.

Kleppe, Sandra Lee. “Memory, Perception, and Imagination in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Wildcat.’” The Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, vol. 26/27, 1998-2000, pp. 124-34. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26674749.

Kriewald, Gary L. “A Virtuous Woman Is Hard to Find: Notes on a Possible Source for Ruby Turpin.” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 14, 2016, pp. 1-7. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26671321.

Larsen, Val. “Manor House and Tenement: Failed Communities South and North in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Geranium.’” The Flannery O’Connor Bulletin, vol. 20, 1991, pp. 88-103. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26669854.

Leigh, Davis J. “Suffering and the Sacred in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 65, no. 5, fall 2013, pp. 365-79. MLA International Bibliography.

Magee, Rosemary M., editor. Conversations with Flannery O’Connor. Jackson, UP of Mississippi, 1987.

Magistrale, Anthony S. “O’Connor’s ‘The Comforts of Home.’” The Explicator, vol. 43, no. 1, fall 1984, pp. 57-60. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1984.11483845.

May, John R. “Flannery O’Connor and the Discernment of Catholic Fiction.” McMullen and Peede, pp. 205-20.

McMullen, Joanne Halleran, and Jon Parrish Peede, editors. Inside the Church of Flannery O’Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction. Mercer UP, 2007.

McTyre, Joe. Flannery O'Connor on crutches, with one of her peacocks in Milledgeville, Georgia, July 1962. July 1962. Digital Collections: Georgia State University Library, Georgia State University, University Library, https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/ajc/id/1978/rec/29.

Miyazawa, Yuki. “‘Mystery of Our Position’: A Religious Implication in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Barber.’” Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, vol. 18, no. 3, Nov. 2016, pp. 325-34. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1093/litimag/imw033.

Monteiro, George. “The Great American Hunt in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Turkey.’” The Explicator, vol. 51, no. 2, winter 1993, pp. 118-21. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.1993.9937993.

Oates, Joyce Carol. “The Visionary Art of Flannery O’Connor.” Bloom, pp. 43-54.

O’Connell, Michael. “Getting to ‘Judgement Day’: Flannery O’Connor’s Representation of Personal Dislocation.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 65, no. 5, fall 2013, pp. 351-64. MLA International Bibliography.

Paulson, Suzanne Morrow. “Apocalypse of Self, Resurrection of the Double: Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 121-38.

Perry, Keith. “Straining the Soup Necessarily Thinner: Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Greenleaf’ and Proverbs 11:28.” English Language Notes, vol. 42, no. 2, Dec. 2004, pp. 56-59. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-42.2.56.

Rath, Sura P., and Mary Neff Shaw, editors. Flannery O’Connor: New Perspectives. Athens, U of Georgia P, 1997.

Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. “Women, Language, and the Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 38-56.

Robison, James C. “1969-1980: Experiment and Tradition.” Weaver, pp. 77-109.

Schaum, Melita. “‘Erasing Angel’: The Lucifer-Trickster Figure in Flannery O’Connor's Short Fiction.” Southern Literary Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, fall 2000, pp. 1-26. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1353/slj.2000.0013.

Sessions, W. A. “Real Presence: Flannery O’Connor and the Saints.” McMullen and Peede, pp. 17-40.

Shloss, Carol. “Epiphany.” Bloom, pp. 65-80.

Smith, Julie Brown. “Eye Symbolism in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Revelation.’” The Explicator, vol. 70, no. 3, summer-fall 2012, pp. 231-33. MLA International Bibliography, https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2012.703707.

Toles, George. “Drowning Children with Flannery O’Connor.” Raritan: A Quarterly Review, vol. 31, no. 3, winter 2012, pp. 142-57. MLA International Bibliography.

Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose. 1983. Open Road Integrated Media, 2011.

Walker, Jeffrey. “1945-1956: Post-World War II Manners and Mores.” Weaver, pp. 1-34.

Walkiewicz, E. P. “1957-1968: Toward Diversity of Form.” Weaver, pp. 35-76.

Weaver, Gordon, editor. The American Short Story, 1945-1980: A Critical History. Twayne Publishers, 1983.

Whitt, Margaret Earley. Understanding Flannery O’Connor. Columbia, U of South Carolina P, 1997.

Wiedmann, Lorna. “Flannery O’Connor’s Six Protestant Conversion Tales.” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 12, 2014, pp. 33-53. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26671270.

Winter, Cameron Lee. “‘I Ain’t Got No Use for None of That’: Contemporary Christian Kitsch and Iconography in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘Parker’s Back.’” South Atlantic Review, vol. 84, nos. 2-3, summer 2019, pp. 1-14. MLA International Bibliography.

Wood, Ralph C. Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South. Grand Rapids (Michigan), W.B. Eerdmans Publ., 2005.

Yaeger, Patricia. “Flannery O’Connor and the Aesthetics of Torture.” Rath and Shaw, pp. 183-206.

Zubeck, Jacqueline A. “Back to Page One in ‘Parker’s Back’: An Orthodox Examination of O’Connor’s Last Story.” Flannery O’Connor Review, vol. 8, 2010, pp. 92-116. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26671190.