{"product_id":"material-spirituality-in-modernist-womens-writing-9781350243194","title":"Material Spirituality in Modernist Womens Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public and rural spaces and stage the interaction between the sublime and the mundane. Ordinary things are rendered extraordinary by their spiritual or emotional significance, and yet their very ordinariness remains part of their value.This book addresses the intersection of spirituality, things and places  both natural and built environments  in the work of these four women modernists. From the living pebbles in Mary Butts's memoir to the pencil sought in Woolf's urban pilgrimage in Street Haunting', the Christmas decorations crafted by children in H.D.'s autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eThe Gift\u003c\/i\u003e and Maud Martha's love of dandelions in Brooks's only novel, things indicate spiritual concerns in these writers' work.Elizabeth Anderson contributes to current debates around materiality, vitalism and post-secularism, attending to both mainstream and heterodox spiritual expressions and conn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Spirituality in Modernist Women's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating new approach to the ‘liveliness of things’ in modernist women’s writing. Steering away from the tendency to see objects purely as commodities and women as consumers, Anderson reveals the mystery and wonder that inheres in their alterity and argues that we should read these characteristics as a form of spirituality that bridges the gap between the material and the transcendental, body and soul. Everyday objects come to seem animate, mobile, relational and obdurate—things that are worthy of the attention and care they receive in this book. Material Spirituality is an excellent introduction to the hybrid forms of religosity seen in its subjects and as an original and timely intervention into the study of literary cultures and religion in a secular age. * Dr Suzanne Hobson, Queen Mary University of London, UK *\u003cbr\u003eFrom an established scholar of modernism and religion, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Spirituality\u003c\/i\u003e productively weds feminist theories of theology and contemporary thinking about the vibrancy and agentive capacities of matter.  In her new study of the prose of both well-known and critically neglected twentieth-century women writers, Anderson uncovers a surprising and utterly fascinating view of spirituality as bounded by, and grounded in, the quotidian. * Lara Vetter, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   Introduction   Chapter One               Threads and Silver Paper: spirituality of gift and process in H.D.’s war writing   Chapter Two               ‘The Pebbles Were Each One Alive’: Animism and Anglo-Catholicism  in Mary Butts’s writing   Chapter Three             Darkness and Dirt: Virginia Woolf’s material mysticism   Chapter Four              Radiant Dandelions: Gwendolyn Brooks’s domestic sublime   Chapter Five               Things in the City   Notes   Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359361892695,"sku":"9781350243194","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350243194.jpg?v=1754124432","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/material-spirituality-in-modernist-womens-writing-9781350243194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}