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Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture - Doubting Moderns (Hardcover)
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Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture - Doubting Moderns (Hardcover)
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This volume offers a new account of the relationship between
literary and secularist scenes of writing in interwar Britain.
Organized secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that
lived and died with the nineteenth century. But associations such
as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press
Association survived into the twentieth and found new purpose in
the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book
assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as
being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted
by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells,
Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the
R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless
registered its importance in their work; a third group, including
D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic
to the Rationalist cause. All of these writers produced fiction
that was experimental in form and, though few of them could be
described as modernist, they shared with modernist writers a will
to innovate. This book explores how Rationalist ideas were adapted
and transformed by these experiments, focusing in particular on the
modifications required to accommodate the strong mode of unbelief
associated with British secularism to the notional mode of belief
usually solicited by fiction. Whereas modernism is often understood
as the literature for a secular age, Unbelief in Interwar Literary
Culture looks elsewhere to find a literature that draws more
directly on secularism for its aesthetics and its ethics.
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