Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction • Erik Tonning
Part 1: Christianity, Modernist Culture, and Visions of Apocalypse
	1 Versions of the Wasteland: The Sense of an Ending in Theology and Literature in the Modern Period • Paul S. Fiddes
	2 The Cup of Sufffering: Dietrich Bonhoefffer’s Discipleship and German Expressionism • Jacob Phillips
	3 Christian Prehistories of Literary Modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward • Suzanne Hobson
	4 Modernist Anti-Modernists: T.E. Hulme, “Spilt Religion” and “The Religious Attitude” • Henry Mead
	5 Between the Bang and the Whimper: Eliot and Apocalypse • Katherine Ebury
	6 Ezra Pound’s Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos • Mark Byron
	7 Péguy’s Apocalypse • Brian Sudlow
Part 2: Cultural Transitions and Political Apocalypses, 1900–1945
	8 The Reason of Nature: Revolution of Principles Around 1900 • Hans Ottomeyer
	9 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilisation of Christian Artists in the Third Reich • Gregory Maertz
	10 James Strachey Barnes and the Fascist Revolution: Catholicism, Anti-Semitism and the International New Order • Paul Jackson
	11 “Till Armageddon, No Shalam, No Shalom”: Ezra Pound and the Consecration of Politics in the Italian Press During WWII • Andrea Rinaldi
	12 The Moot, the End of Civilisation and the Re-Birth of Christendom • Jonas Kurlberg
	13 Old Dogmas for a New Crisis: Hell and Incarnation in T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden • Erik Tonning
	14 Apocalypse Deferred: W.H. Auden’s Anti-Totalitarian Vision • Hedda Lingaas Fossum
Part 3: Still Waiting for the End? Post-World War II Readings of Apocalypse
	15 Ezra Pound’s Political Faith from First to Second Generation; Or, “It is 1956 Fascism” • Matthew Feldman
	16 “Of What Disaster Is this the Imminence”: “The Auroras of Autumn” and the Christian Apocalypse • Benjamin Madden
	17 “History is Done”: Thomas Merton’s Figures of Apocalypse • Mary Bryden
	18 Apocalypse in Early ufo and Alien-Based Religions: Christian and Theosophical Themes • Carole M. Cusack
	19 The Apocalyptic Social Imaginary • Malise Ruthven
Index