Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance Mutter, Matthew

Mutter, Matthew

ISBN 10: 0300221738 / ISBN 13: 9780300221732

Published by Yale University Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Restless Secularism: Modernism and the Religious Inheritance Mutter, Matthew
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300221738
• ISBN 13: 9780300221732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A scholarly and deeply sensitive study that explores how religion and secularism are tightly interwoven in the major works of modernist literature

Matthew Mutter provides a broad survey of modernist literature, examining key works against a background of philosophy, theology, intellectual and social history, while tracing the relationship of modernism’s secular imagination to the religious cultures that both preceded and shaped it. Mutter’s provocative study demonstrates how, despite their explicit desire to purify secular life of its religious residues, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, and other literary modernists consistently found themselves entangled in the religious legacies they disavowed.

About the Author

Matthew Mutter is assistant professor of literature at Bard College.