Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond [electronic resource] : Grappling with Ghosts /
Johnson, George M.author.
This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
Military history.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
British literature.
Religion and sociology.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
History of Military.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Religion and Society.
Twentieth-Century Literature.