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Unbelief in interwar literary culture : doubting moderns / Suzanne Hobson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hobson, Suzanne, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism in literature.
- Great Britain--Religion--20th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Explores connections between literary figures and organized secularist movements and groups in the interwar period, with a focus on the works of Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, George Moore, D.H. Lawrence, and Mary Borden, among others.
- Contents:
- Organized Secularism, Modernism, and Interwar Fiction
- The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and William James
- H.G. Wells's 'Theological Excursion' and the Dialogue Novel
- The 'Death of God' in New Testament Biofiction
- Mary Butts and 'Belief in Belief' in Traps for Unbelievers and Supernatural Stories
- Naomi Mitchison's Rationalist 'Heresy' and Speculative Humanism in Beyond This Limit
- K. S. Bhat, Soma and a Transnational Literature of Unbelief
- Literacy Unbelief from 1945 to the Present.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-266164-7
- 0-19-266163-9
- 0-19-193880-7
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