Spiritual Responses to American Literary Modernism : Watering the Wasteland

This collection addresses the gap in American critical history regarding the role of spiritual discourse in literary modernism of the 1920s and 1930s. No book-length research has yet been published about spirituality and American Literary Modernism, with the exception of a few books on individual authors. The majority of the primary and critical material this book examines has been either rarely or incompletely considered from this angle. The volume highlights those American writers and texts who insisted on the spiritual relevance of literature, despite the growing secularity of literary modernism, bringing together a range of scholars to inspire both professors and students of American literature to look again and reconsider the spiritual discourse represented in the literature between the World Wars.