The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion / / ed. by Suzanne Hobson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Elizabeth,; Andrews, Charles,; Bahun, Sanja,; Banks, Lisa,; Bowler, Rebecca,; Callison, Jamie,; Erickson, Gregory,; Ferretter, Luke,; Freer, Scott,; Gay, Jane de,; Grafen, Alex,; Hadjiyiannis, Christos,; Hewitt, Seán,; Hobson, Suzanne,; Jensen, Graham H.,; Kilner-Johnson, Allan,; Lewis, Pericles,; Mao, Douglas,; McIntire, Gabrielle,; Mitchell, Jennifer,; Mohua, Mafruha,; Mutter, Matthew,; Pinkerton, Steve,; Pryor, Sean,; Radford, Andrew,; Robinson, Matte,; Sherman, David,; Sim, Lorraine,; Spitzer, Jennifer,; Tonning, Erik,; Vetter, Lara,; Wilson, Leigh,; Winick, Mimi,
• HerausgeberIn: Hobson, Suzanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (552 p.) :; 13 colour illustrations 13 colour illustrations

Presents authoritative analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist periodPresents authoritative scholarly analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist periodIncludes 30 + specially commissioned chapters on modernist myth, religion and alternative spirituality representing the breadth an...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part I: Key Figures and Movements
• 1 Ezra Pound versus T. S. Eliot on Christianity, Apocalypse and Myth, 1934–1945
• 2 Virginia Woolf and Christianity
• 3 H.D. and Spirituality
• 4 D. H. Lawrence’s Dark God
• 5 Harlem’s Bible Stories: Christianity and the New Negro Movement
• 6 The Jewish East End and Modernism
• Part II: Secularity, Disenchantment, Re-enchantment
• 7 Troubled: Reverse Theodicy in Ward, Eliot and Baldwin
• 8 Modernism, Secular Hope and the Posthumous Trace
• 9 C. K. Ogden, I. A. Richards and ‘Word Magic’: Rethinking the Relation of Language to Myth
• 10 Jean Toomer and the Face of the Real: Between Sacred Presence and Disenchanting Violence
• 11 Modernism and Political Theology
• Part III: Religious Forms
• 12 Virginia Woolf’s Agnostic, Visionary Mysticism: Approaching and Retreating from the Sacred
• 13 Modernism, Abstraction and Spirituality: Barbara Hepworth and Hilma af Klint
• 14 Modernism and the Hymn
• 15 William James, Mysticism and the Modernist Epiphany
• Part IV: Myth, Folklore and Magic
• 16 Modernist Mythopoeia
• 17 Yeats’s Sacred Grove
• 18 The Modernist Grail Quest
• 19 The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain
• Part V: Modern Esotericism, Pantheism and Spiritualism
• 20 The Modernist Afterlives of Theosophy
• 21 Rebecca West, Modern Spiritualism and the Problem of Other Minds
• 22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion
• Part VI: Religious Space, Time and Ritual Practice
• 23 Sacred Ground: Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change
• 24 Liminal Spaces and Spiritual Practice in Naomi Mitchison, Keri Hulme and Lorna Goodison
• 25 Finnegans Wake, Modernist Time Machines and Re-enchanted Time
• Part VII: Global Transitions and Exchange
• 26 Global Seekers in The Quest: A Case Study of an Occult Periodical’s Worldly Religion
• 27 ‘A Miserable Attenuation’: T. S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore and Irving Babbitt
• 28 ‘Part heathen, part Christian’: Recording Transitions and Amalgamations of Belief Systems in Constantine Cavafy’s Poetry
• Part VIII: Queer[y]ing Religion
• 29 ‘It was really rather fine to be suffering’: Radclyffe Hall at the Queer Intersection of Masochism and Martyrdom
• 30 The Byzantine Modernism of Djuna Barnes
• 31 ‘Mixed sex cases among goats’: The Modernist Sublime
• Contributor Biographies
• Index