Unbelief in interwar literary culture : doubting moderns / Suzanne Hobson.

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.

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Organised secularism has sometimes been seen as a phenomenon that lived and died with the 19th century. But associations such as the National Secular Society and the Rationalist Press Association survived into the 20th and found new purpose in the promotion and publishing of serious literature. This book assembles a group of literary figures whose work was recommended as being of particular interest to the unbelieving readership targeted by these organisations. Some, including Vernon Lee, H.G. Wells, Naomi Mitchison, and K.S. Bhat, were members or friends of the R.P.A.; others, such as Mary Butts, were sceptical but nonetheless registered its importance in their work; a third group, including D.H. Lawrence and George Moore, wrote in ways seen as sympathetic to the Rationalist cause.

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February 28, 2022

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