Addresses the early twentieth-century intersection of scientific and religious discourse exploring literary modernism through the lens of cultural history, focusing on the works of H.D., Mina Loy, and Jean Toomer. It covers a range of topics such as electromagnetism and sexuality, dance, and theories of spiritual evolution.



Autorentext
LARA VETTER is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction '[T]he electric incitement of Eros': Electromagnetism, Sexuality, and Modernism Seeking 'a sort of clairvoyant material plane': Spirituality and the Moving Body Negotiating the Racialized Body: Theories of Spiritual Evolution and the 'American Race' Coda
Titel
Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
Untertitel
H.D., Loy, and Toomer
EAN
9780230106451
ISBN
978-0-230-10645-1
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
26.04.2010
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
2.12 MB
Anzahl Seiten
219
Jahr
2010
Untertitel
Englisch