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The poetry, novels and journalism of Stevie Smith (1902–1971) are increasingly attracting academic attention, having enjoyed a popular following during her lifetime but eluding sustained critical analysis. The first academic conference on her work is to take place in Oxford in March 2016. This short piece attempts to explore the relationship of her considerable engagement with Christianity in lively, even cynical debate in her writings to some of the tenets of more formal British Theological Modernism.
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Boughton, G. (2016). Stevie Smith’s Serious Play: A Modernist Reframing of Christian Orthodoxy. In: Anderson, E., Radford, A., Walton, H. (eds) Modernist Women Writers and Spirituality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53036-3_4
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