Angels of modernism [electronic resource] : religion, culture, aesthetics 1910-1960 / Suzanne Hobson.

Angels of Modernism explores the many and various ways that angels are represented in modernist literary cultures. Seen by the likes of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Virginia Woolf as belonging to a religious or Victorian past, the angel might easily have been consigned to history along with other tropes...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Hobson, Suzanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : twentieth-century angelology
  • 'On the side of the angels' : historical angels and angels of history
  • 'The angel club' : the angel versus the Ubermensch
  • 'Angels on all fours' : the third sex and angels with 'a difference'
  • 'The necessary angel of earth' : WWII and the utopian imagination.