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Author(s):	James H. Thrall

Date:	2024	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1498583776
Pages:	314	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Mystic Moderns examines the responses of three British authorsEvelyn Underhill (18751941), May Sinclair (18631946), and Mary Webb (18811927)to the emerging modernity of the long early twentieth-century moment encompassing the First World War. As they explored divergent but overlapping understandings of what mystical experience might be, these authors rejected claims that modernitys celebration of the secular and rational left no place for the mystical  rather, they countered, sensitivity to a greater reality could both establish and validate personal agency, and was integral to their identities as modern women. Their preoccupations with the dynamism of human connection drew on prevailing ideas of vital energy or life force developed by Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson in ways that channeled modernitys erotic energy of change. By using their fiction to describe new, self-authenticating forms of mysticism separate from either the prevailing orthodoxy of establishment Christianity or the extreme heterodoxy of their eras enthusiasm for paranormal experimentation, they also contributed to the rise of a generic concept of spirituality. Mystic Moderns thus offers historical perspective on contemporary claims for self-constructed, non-institutional spiritual experience associated with the claim Im spiritual, not religious.
Working as they did within the shadow of the First World War, Underhill, Sinclair, and Webb were, in the end, attempting to determine what might be of authentic value for a modern age marked by ubiquitous death. While not themselves utopian authors, each was touched by her eras complicated hunger for the best of all possible worlds. Their constructions of how an individual should be and act in the midst of modernity thus simultaneously projected visions of what that modernity itself should become.
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