It mostly goes without saying that modernism was, by definition, an era of religious doubt and disillusionment... But in this fascinating new book by Suzanne Hobson of Queen Mary University of London, a different sense of the era emerges, one where committed secularism could invite critical sanctions and where open unbelief often met with polite silence from literary modernists.
Suzanne Hobson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editor with Rachel Potter of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt, 2010). She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including religion and spirituality and modernist travel writing. She is past Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar.