Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality (eBook)

Elizabeth Anderson is Impact Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. She is the author of H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination and has published in Literature and Theology, Women: A Cultural Review and Christianity and Literature. Andrew Radford is a Lecturer in Anglo-American Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published extensively on modernist fiction and is the co-editor of Franco-British Cultural Exchanges: Channel Packets. Heather Walton is Professor of Theology and Creative Practice and Co-Director of the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her books include: Literature, Theology and Feminism, Imagining Theology: Women Writing and God and Not Eden: Spiritual Life Writing for this World. She is Executive Editor of the journal Literature and Theology. 

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Intricate Persistence of Strange GodsElizabeth 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 MacaulayHeather Walton Chapter 5: Jane Harrison’s Ritual ScholarshipMimi 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 1950sMatte Robinson           Afterword: Modernist Women Writers and SpiritualityLara Vetter  BibliographyNotes on Contributors Index