Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Christianity, Modernist Culture, and Visions of Apocalypse -- 1 Versions of the Wasteland: The Sense of an Ending in Theology and Literature in the Modern Period -- 2 The Cup of Suffering: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Discipleship and German Expressionism -- 3 Christian Prehistories of Literary Modernism in G.K. Chesterton and Allen Upward -- 4 Modernist Anti-Modernists: T.E. Hulme, "Spilt Religion" and "The Religious Attitude" -- 5 Between the Bang and the Whimper: Eliot and Apocalypse -- 6 Ezra Pound's Eriugena: Eschatology in the Periphyseon and the Cantos -- 7 Péguy's Apocalypse -- Part 2: Cultural Transitions and Political Apocalypses, 1900-1945 -- 8 The Reason of Nature: Revolution of Principles Around 1900 -- 9 Nazi Modernism and the Mobilisation of Christian Artists in the Third Reich -- 10 James Strachey Barnes and the Fascist Revolution: Catholicism, Anti-Semitism and the International New Order -- 11 "Till Armageddon, No Shalam, No Shalom": Ezra Pound and the Consecration of Politics in the Italian Press During wwii -- 12 The Moot, the End of Civilisation and the Re-Birth of Christendom -- 13 Old Dogmas for a New Crisis: Hell and Incarnation in T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden -- 14 Apocalypse Deferred: W.H. Auden's Anti-Totalitarian Vision -- Part 3: Still Waiting for the End? Post-World War II Readings of Apocalypse -- 15 Ezra Pound's Political Faith from First to Second Generation -- Or, "It is 1956 Fascism" -- 16 "Of What Disaster Is this the Imminence" "The Auroras of Autumn" and the Christian Apocalypse -- 17 "History is Done": Thomas Merton's Figures of Apocalypse -- 18 Apocalypse in Early ufo and Alien-Based Religions Christian and Theosophical Themes.

19 The Apocalyptic Social Imaginary -- Index.