Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This essay collection scrutinizes a diverse array of modernist Anglophone women writers and their engagements with religion and spirituality. Considering canonical authors such as Virginia Woolf alongside less studied writers such as H.D., Mary Butts, Rose Macaulay, Stevie Smith and Evelyn Underhill, the volume fills a real gap in scholarship on modernism, spirituality and religion.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Intricate Persistence of Strange Gods
Elizabeth Anderson, Andrew Radford and Heather Walton
Chapter 1: Radical Unorthodoxy: Religious and Literary Modernisms in H.D. and Mary Butts
Suzanne Hobson
Chapter 2: Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Consciousness and Spiritual Direction
Jamie Callison
Chapter 3: Stevie Smith's serious play: a modernist reframing of Christian orthodoxy
Gillian Boughton
Chapter 4: Faith in Ruins: Fragments and Pattern in the Late Works of Rose Macaulay
Heather Walton
Chapter 5: Jane Harrison's Ritual Scholarship
Mimi Winick
Chapter 6: Antiquarian Magic: Jane Harrison's Ritual Theory and Hope Mirrlees's Paris
Nina Enemark
Chapter 7: Childish Things: Spirituality, Materiality and Creativity in Mary Butts's The Crystal Cabinet
Elizabeth Anderson
Chapter 8: Spectral Poetics in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
Sheela Banerjee
Chapter 9: The Queer Movements of Ecstasy and Asceticism in
Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul and
Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists Ellen Ricketts
Chapter 10: Dora Marsden and the "WORLD-INCLUSIVE I" Egoism, Mysticism and Radical Feminism
Steven Quincey-Jones
Chapter 11: What lies below the horizon of life: the occult fiction of Dion Fortune
Andrew Radford
Chapter 12: What Words Conceal: H.D.'s occult word-alchemy in the 1950s
Matte Robinson
Afterword: Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality
Lara Vetter
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index