Angels of Modernism - Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960

Informationen zum Autor SUZANNE HOBSON Lecturer in twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She writes mainly on modernist fiction, poetry and theory and on the relations between religion and literature in the early twentieth century. She has published articles on D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Mina Loy and is the co-editor of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt 2010). Her first book Modernism, Secularism and Religion: The New Angel (forthcoming Palgrave 2011) explores modernist debates over the religious and/or secular character of the age through the lens of the angel. She is co-organizer of the Modernism Research Seminar (London). Klappentext The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age. Zusammenfassung The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Twentieth-Century Angelology 'On the Side of the Angels': Historical Angels and Angels of History 'The Angel Club': The Angel versus the Ubermensch 'Angels on All Fours': The Third Sex and Angels with 'A Difference' 'The Necessary Angel of Earth': WWII and the Utopian Imagination Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Twentieth-Century Angelology 'On the Side of the Angels': Historical Angels and Angels of History 'The Angel Club': The Angel versus the Ubermensch 'Angels on All Fours': The Third Sex and Angels with 'A Difference' 'The Necessary Angel of Earth': WWII and the Utopian Imagination Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: S Hobson, S. Hobson, Suzanne Hobson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349324743
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32474-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, Cultural Theory, Poetry, Fiction, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, aesthetics;culture;English literature;Imagination;religion