Restless Secularism : Modernism and the Religious Inheritance / Matthew Mutter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mutter, Matthew, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Religion and literature.

Secularism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social history, while tracing the relationship of modernism's secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutter's provocative study demonstrates how, despite their explicit desire to purify secular life of its religious residues, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, and other literary modernists consistently found themselves entangled in the religious legacies they disavowed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Modernist Secularism and Its Discontents

1. "THE WORLD WAS PARADISE MALFORMED": POETIC LANGUAGE, ANTHROPOMORPHISM, AND SECULARISM IN WALLACE STEVENS

2. "TANGLED IN A GOLDEN MESH": VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE "DECEPTIVENESS" OF BEAUTY

3. "HOMER IS MY EXAMPLE": YEATS, PAGANISM, AND THE EMOTIONS

4. "THE POWER TO ENCHANT THAT COMES FROM DISILLUSION": W. H. AUDEN'S ANTI- MAGICAL POETICS

Conclusion: Evil and the Adequacy of the Earth

Notes

Bibliography

Credits

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780300227963

0300227965

OCLC:

1032365493