Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality: A Piercing Darkness

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Intricate Persistence of Strange Gods....Pages 1-20
Radical Unorthodoxy: Religious and Literary Modernisms in H.D. and Mary Butts....Pages 21-37
Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Consciousness and Spiritual Direction....Pages 39-54
Stevie Smith’s Serious Play: A Modernist Reframing of Christian Orthodoxy....Pages 55-68
Faith in Ruins: Fragments and Pattern in the Late Works of Rose Macaulay....Pages 69-93
Jane Harrison’s Ritual Scholarship....Pages 95-114
Antiquarian Magic: Jane Harrison’s Ritual Theory and Hope Mirrlees’s Antiquarianism in Paris ....Pages 115-133
Childish Things: Spirituality, Materiality and Creativity in Mary Butts’s The Crystal Cabinet ....Pages 135-151
Spectral Poetics in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves ....Pages 153-168
The Queer Movements of Ecstasy and Asceticism in Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul and Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists ....Pages 169-184
Dora Marsden and the “WORLD-INCLUSIVE I”: Egoism, Mysticism and Radical Feminism....Pages 185-199
What Lies Below the Horizon of Life: The Occult Fiction of Dion Fortune....Pages 201-218
What Words Conceal: H.D.’s Occult Word-Alchemy in the 1950s....Pages 219-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-281