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The angel can be viewed as a signal reference to modernist attempts to accommodate religious languages to self-consciously modern cultures. This book uses the angel to explore the relations between modernist literature and early twentieth-century debates over the secular and/or religious character of the modern age.

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SUZANNE HOBSON Lecturer in twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She writes mainly on modernist fiction, poetry and theory and on the relations between religion and literature in the early twentieth century. She has published articles on D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Mina Loy and is the co-editor of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt 2010). Her first book Modernism, Secularism and Religion: The New Angel (forthcoming Palgrave 2011) explores modernist debates over the religious and/or secular character of the age through the lens of the angel. She is co-organizer of the Modernism Research Seminar (London).

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