Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Intricate Persistence of Strange Gods

Chapter 2 Radical Unorthodoxy: Religious and Literary Modernisms in H.D. and Mary Butts

Chapter 3 Directing Modernist Spirituality: Evelyn Underhill, the Subliminal Consciousness and Spiritual Direction

Chapter 4 Stevie Smith’s Serious Play: A Modernist Reframing of Christian Orthodoxy

Chapter 5 Faith in Ruins: Fragments and Pattern in the Late Works of Rose Macaulay

Chapter 6 Jane Harrison’s Ritual Scholarship

Chapter 7 Antiquarian Magic: Jane Harrison’s Ritual Theory and Hope Mirrlees’s Antiquarianism in Paris

Chapter 8 Childish Things: Spirituality, Materiality and Creativity in Mary Butts’s The Crystal Cabinet

Chapter 9 Spectral Poetics in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Chapter 10 The Queer Movements of Ecstasy and Asceticism in Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul and Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists

Chapter 11 Dora Marsden and the “WORLD-INCLUSIVE I”: Egoism, Mysticism and Radical Feminism

Chapter 13 What Words Conceal: H.D.’s Occult Word-Alchemy in the 1950s