James H. Thrall

Mystic Moderns

Agency and Enchantment in Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb

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Produktbeschreibung

Mystic Moderns examines divergent but overlapping treatments of mysticism in the fiction of early twentieth-century British authors Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb. These authors challenged assumptions of a modern, secularized age by seeing sensitivity to a greater reality as integral to their identities as modern women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9781498583770
• ISBN-10: 1498583776
• Artikelnr.: 58292072

Autorenporträt

James H. Thrall is a Knight Distinguished associate professor at Knox College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Agencies and Innovations Chapter One: Considering the New:
"modern," "modernity," and "modernism" Part One: Evelyn Underhill's Heroic
Mysticism Chapter Two: Mystic Modes: Living, Dying, Knowing Chapter Three:
Catholic Aesthetics and Medieval Modernity Chapter Four: Magics and
Mysticisms: Finding a New Orthodoxy Chapter Five: The Heroic Individual on
the Mystic Way Chapter Six: Gender, Class, and Mysticism Part Two: May
Sinclair's Erotic Mysticism Chapter Seven: Language and the Lure of
Idealism Chapter Eight: Deepest Desires: Embracing Erotic Mysticism Chapter
Nine: Maintaining Control: Will and the Boundaries of Self Chapter Ten:
Evolution's Promise: Consciousness, Species, Religion Chapter Eleven:
Modernity, War, and Death: Mystic Responses Chapter Twelve: Meeting the
Dead: Ghost Stories for Moderns Part Three: Mary Webb's Mysticism of Nature
Chapter Thirteen: Country Living: Tales of Old and New Chapter Fourteen:
Agency and Choice: Romanticism, Mysticism, Capitalism Chapter Fifteen:
Acting Naturally: Christianity, Sexuality, Agency Chapter Sixteen: Other
Ways to Think?: The Puzzle of a Medieval Turn Conclusion: Connections and
Crossings