Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance

ISBN: 0300221738

Author: Mutter, Matthew

Condition: New

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literatureMatthew 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 modernisms secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutters 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.