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050	0	0	_aPR478.W65 _bJ64 2015
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100	1		_aJohnson, George M. _eauthor. _927398
245	1	0	_aMourning and mysticism in First World War literature and beyond : _bgrappling with ghosts _cGeorge M. Johnson.
260			_aHampshire: _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2015.
300			_axiv, 256 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 234-251) 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.
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"--
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918 _zGreat Britain _xLiterature and the war. _927399
650		0	_aEnglish literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _927400
650		0	_aMourning customs in literature. _927401
650		0	_aMysticism in literature. _927402
650		0	_aSpiritualism in literature. _927403
650		7	_aHISTORY / Military / World War I. _2bisacsh _927404
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / General. _2bisacsh _927405
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh _927406
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / Religious. _2bisacsh _927407
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