Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality : A Piercing Darkness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Intricate Persistence of Strange Gods Elizabeth 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 Macaulay Heather Walton Chapter 5: Jane Harrison's Ritual Scholarship Mimi 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 1950s Matte Robinson Afterword: Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality Lara Vetter Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index