Suzanne Hobson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editor with Rachel Potter of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt, 2010). She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including religion and spirituality and modernist travel writing. She is past Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar.

The book wonderfully portrays the complex ways in which arguments for and against unbelief-as well as modern and anti-modern elements-often interacted even within the works of the same author...Hobson's study of the doubting moderns-and of the doubts about modernity-provides a rich, multi-layered model that students and scholars will undoubtedly benefit from following.

• Introduction 1: The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and William James 2: H.G. Wells's 'Theological Excursion' and the Dialogue Novel 3: The 'Death of God' in New Testament Biofiction 4: Mary Butts and 'Belief in Belief' in Traps for Unbelievers, and Supernatural Stories 5: Naomi Mitchison's Rationalist Heresy and Speculative Humanism in Beyond this Limit 6: K.S. Bhat, Soma, and a Transnational Literature of Unbelief Conclusion: Literary Unbelief from 1945 to the Present

Suzanne Hobson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editor with Rachel Potter of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt, 2010). She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including religion and spirituality and modernist travel writing. She is past Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar.

The book wonderfully portrays the complex ways in which arguments for and against unbelief-as well as modern and anti-modern elements-often interacted even within the works of the same author...Hobson's study of the doubting moderns-and of the doubts about modernity-provides a rich, multi-layered model that students and scholars will undoubtedly benefit from following.

• Introduction 1: The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and William James 2: H.G. Wells's 'Theological Excursion' and the Dialogue Novel 3: The 'Death of God' in New Testament Biofiction 4: Mary Butts and 'Belief in Belief' in Traps for Unbelievers, and Supernatural Stories 5: Naomi Mitchison's Rationalist Heresy and Speculative Humanism in Beyond this Limit 6: K.S. Bhat, Soma, and a Transnational Literature of Unbelief Conclusion: Literary Unbelief from 1945 to the Present

Suzanne Hobson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Angels of Modernism: Religion, Culture, Aesthetics 1910-1960 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and editor with Rachel Potter of The Salt Companion to Mina Loy (Salt, 2010). She has published articles and book chapters on a range of topics including religion and spirituality and modernist travel writing. She is past Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies and co-organizer of the London Modernism Seminar.

The book wonderfully portrays the complex ways in which arguments for and against unbelief-as well as modern and anti-modern elements-often interacted even within the works of the same author...Hobson's study of the doubting moderns-and of the doubts about modernity-provides a rich, multi-layered model that students and scholars will undoubtedly benefit from following.

• Introduction 1: The Ethics of Unbelief in Vernon Lee and William James 2: H.G. Wells's 'Theological Excursion' and the Dialogue Novel 3: The 'Death of God' in New Testament Biofiction 4: Mary Butts and 'Belief in Belief' in Traps for Unbelievers, and Supernatural Stories 5: Naomi Mitchison's Rationalist Heresy and Speculative Humanism in Beyond this Limit 6: K.S. Bhat, Soma, and a Transnational Literature of Unbelief Conclusion: Literary Unbelief from 1945 to the Present