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mods: 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 Ch…