Restless Secularism
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Modernism and the Religious Inheritance
Matthew Mutter
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A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature
Matthew 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 modernism’s secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutter’s 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.
Matthew 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 modernism’s secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutter’s 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.
Matthew Mutter is assistant professor of literature at Bard College.
ISBN: 9780300221732
Publication Date: June 27, 2017
Publication Date: June 27, 2017
336 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4
