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Mourning and mysticism in First World War literature and beyond : grappling with ghosts /

"How did people respond to the overwhelming loss of loved ones during the First World War? Many took their lead from iconic early twentieth-century writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley, among o...

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Main Author:	Johnson, George M. (George Malcolm), 1961- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Subjects:	World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Literature and the war. English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Mourning customs in literature. Mysticism in literature. Spiritualism in literature. HISTORY / Military / World War I. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. PHILOSOPHY / Religious.

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