Unbelief in interwar literary culture doubting moderns Hobson, Suzanne creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. enk 2022 2022 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (vi, 240 pages). Organised secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the 19th century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the 20th and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause. Cover -- Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Organized Secularism, Modernism, and Interwar Fiction -- Modernist Studies and 'The Secular' -- From Holyoake's 'Dissident Secularism' to Rationalism -- Rationalist Literature -- Scientific Humanism and Progressive Literature -- Anglo-Unbelief -- 1: The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and William James -- Vernon Lee, 'Preface' to Vital Lies -- The Veto on Unbelief: William K. Clifford and William James -- The Right Not to Believe -- Irresponsible Unbelief Satan the Waster and the Non-neutrality of Words -- 2: H. G. Wells's 'Theological Excursion' and the Dialogue Novel -- A Pragmatic God -- Mr Britling's Reconversion -- Naive Unbelievers in The Soul of a Bishop -- Israel Zangwill and 'Robert Elsmerism' -- Modernizing Job -- The 'Spread-Out Novel -- 3: The 'Death of God' in New Testament Biofiction -- The 'Atheist Core' of Christianity -- A Religion Based on a 'Lie': George Moore's The Brook Kerith -- The Half-Dead Jesus: D.H. Lawrence and H.D. -- New Testament Unbelievers: Mary Borden and Iwan Naschiwin 4: Mary Butts and 'Belief in Belief ' in Traps for Unbelievers and Supernatural Stories -- The Literature of Belief and Unbelief -- Strong Belief in Belief -- Closed Ecologies of Value in Armed with Madness -- Ironizing Doubt -- Credulous Unbelievers -- The Heresy Game -- 5: Naomi Mitchison's Rationalist 'Heresy' and Speculative Humanism in Beyond This Limit -- 'Are We against Religion as Such?' -- 'Why Women Are More Religious than Men and How to Stop Being' -- The 'Detachable Soul Theory' -- Speculative Humanism -- Modernist Living On 6: K. S. Bhat, Soma, and a Transnational Literature of Unbelief -- 'Internationalist Cross-Traffic in the PWA -- Somatic Aesthetics -- Transnational Rationalist Literatures -- K. S. Bhat and Didactic Form -- Cautionary Tales for Unbelievers -- Conclusion: Literary Unbelief from 1945 to the Present -- Bibliography -- Unpublished material -- Published material -- Index Specialized. specialized Suzanne Hobson. This edition also issued in print: 2022. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-uk--- British literature 20th century History and criticism Secularism in literature Great Britain Religion 20th century Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century Littérature britannique 20e siècle Histoire et critique Grande-Bretagne Religion 20e siècle Grande-Bretagne Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle British literature Intellectual life Religion Secularism in literature Great Britain 1900-1999 fast PR478.M6 H63 2022 820.93821160904 Unbelief in interwar literary culture Hobson, Suzanne. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 First edition. (OCoLC)1260819569 9780191938801 0191938807 9780192846471 0192846477 9780192661630 0192661639 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/38760 STBDS 211013 20260318163933.6 in00005696764 eng