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010 $a 2015001306
020 $a9781137332028 (hardback)
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024 $a40025102568
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050 00 $aPR478.W65$bJ64 2015
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084 $aHIS027090$aLIT000000$aLIT004120$aPHI022000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aJohnson, George M.$q(George Malcolm),$d1961-$eauthor.
245 10 $aMourning and mysticism in First World War literature and beyond :$bgrappling with ghosts /$cGeorge M. Johnson, Professor and Chair, Thompson Rivers University, Canada.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $axiv, 256 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"How did people respond to the overwhelming loss of loved ones during the First World War? Many took their lead from iconic early twentieth-century writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley, among others, who embraced some form of mysticism as a means of coping. These figures had experienced profound losses and even trauma in their early lives, sensitizing them to losses of loved ones during the war and making these writers receptive to the possibility of communicating with spirits. Most of these writers had become fascinated with the work of Frederic Myers and other key psychical researchers regarding potential extensions of personality, including telepathy, clairvoyance, and automatic writing, phenomena which supported the possibility that personality survived death. Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond skilfully weaves psychology, history, psychobiography and literary analysis to show that these writers' engagement with mysticism and spiritualism in particular was not deluded, but at least in some situations constituted a more ethical, creative and therapeutic form of mourning than drawing solace from state-sanctioned representations of mourning such as war memorials"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain$xLiterature and the war.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aMourning customs in literature.
650 0 $aMysticism in literature.
650 0 $aSpiritualism in literature.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / World War I.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPHILOSOPHY / Religious.$2bisacsh
852 00 $bglx$hPR478.W65$iJ64 2015