Mystic Moderns : Agency and Enchantment in Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb /: Agency and Enchantment in Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, and Mary Webb. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James H. Thrall.
• Authors: Thrall, James H
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: Religion: General; Literary Criticism: Modern / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498583787; 1498583784
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