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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Bibliographic Details
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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PrefaceIntroduction: Attachment, Mourning and Mysticism1. F. W. H. Myers: Loss and the Obsessive Study of Survival2. Spirit Soldiers: Oliver Lodge's Raymond and Christopher3. From Parodist to Proselytizer: Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Vital Message'4. Well-Remembered Voices: Mourning and Spirit Communication in Barrie and Kipling's First World War Narratives5. 'Mourning, the War, and the 'New Mysticism' in May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf'6. 'Purgatorial Passions': 'The ghost' (a.k.a. Wilfred Owen) in Owen's poetry7. ''Misty-schism': the Psychological Roots of Aldous Huxley's Mystical Modernism'8. After-life/After-word: the Culture of Mourning and MysticismBibliographyIndex.