Angels of Modernism [electronic resource] : Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 /
Hobson, S.author.
The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : twentieth-century angelology -- 'On the side of the angels' : historical angels and angels of history -- 'The angel club' : the angel versus the Ubermensch -- 'Angels on all fours' : the third sex and angels with 'a difference' -- 'The necessary angel of earth' : WWII and the utopian imagination.
The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.
Literature—Philosophy.
Fiction.
Poetry.
Aesthetics.
Culture—Study and teaching.
British literature.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.
Poetry and Poetics.
Aesthetics.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.