{"product_id":"the-edinburgh-companion-to-modernism-myth-and-religion-9781474494786","title":"The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003eUntil fairly recently, the 'Authorized Version' of cultural modernism stated that the secularizing trends of liberal modernity - and the resultant emphasis on irony, parody and dissolution in modernist artforms - had pushed religion to the edges of early twentieth-century culture. This \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003ecomplicates this 'Authorized Version' by furnishing students and academic researchers with more nuanced and probing assessments of the intersections - and tensions - between religion, myth and creativity during this half century of geopolitical ferment. \u003ci\u003eThe Companion\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the variety and specificity of modernist spiritualities; as well as the intricately textured and shifting standpoints that modernist figures have occupied in relation to theological traditions, practices, creeds, and institutions. What emerges is a multi-textured account of modernism's deep-rooted concern with the historical and established forms of religion as well as new engagements with 'occulture' and indigenous traditions. In short, this \u003ci\u003eCompanion \u003c\/i\u003esupplies a lively and original introduction to the aesthetic, publishing, technological and philosophical trends that shape debates about spirituality, community and self from the 1890s to the 1940s and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuzanne Hobson is Reader in 20th Century Literature in the English Department at Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on modernism and literary theory and she is especially interested in questions of religion and secularism in the first half of the 20th century. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns\u003c\/i\u003e (Oxford University Press 2022) and \u003ci\u003eAngels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-60\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Salt Companion to Mina Loy\u003c\/i\u003e (2010). She is past Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Radford is Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. His books include \u003ci\u003eBritish Experimental Women's Fiction, 1945-1975\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Hannah Van Hove, Palgrave, 2021), \u003ci\u003eThe Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Christine Ferguson, Routledge, 2018), \u003ci\u003eMary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism: The Enchantment of Place\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eMapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2010). He has recently published a critical edition of Marie Corelli's occult bestseller \u003ci\u003eA Romance of Two Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389071397138,"sku":"9781474494786","price":154.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3e8a14eb-1fbb-4a3b-8d1c-afd3763a1874.jpg?v=1728915048","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-edinburgh-companion-to-modernism-myth-and-religion-9781474494786","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}