Flannery O'Connor: a proper scaring

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. "The Meaning is in you" : Flannery O'Connor's letters

2. The Law which condemns

"The Geranium"

"The Barber"

"The Crop"

"The Turkey"

"Good country people"

"The Life you save may be your own"

"The Comforts of home"

3. Discharged from the law

"Parker's back"

"The Lame shall enter first"

"The Artificial nigger"

4. Sacrament : the outward and visible sign

"The Displaced person"

"A Temple of the Holy Ghost"

"The Enduring chill"

"The River"

5. And the blind shall see

"A Good man is hard to find"

"A Late encounter with the enemy"

"A View of the woods"

"A Circle in the fire"

"Everything that rises must converge"

"Greenleaf"

"Revelation"

6. One step forward and two back : Wise blood

7. "I don't talk no words" : The violent bear it away

8. Flannery O'Connor and the limitations of language

Judgement day

Bibliography

Index.