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04197aam a2200517 i 4500 001 EFB8F924ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150210s2015 enkac b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015001306 020 $a 1137332026 (hardback) 020 $a 9781137332028 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)898925014 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d OCLCO $d NYP $d OCLCO $d PUL $d IUL $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d NLGGC $d NLE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR478.W65 $b J64 2015 082 00 $a 820.9/358 $2 23 084 $a PHI022000 $a LIT000000 $a LIT004120 $a PHI022000 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.05 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Johnson, George M. $q (George Malcolm), $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Mourning and mysticism in First World War literature and beyond : $b grappling with ghosts / $c George M. Johnson, Professor and Chair, Thompson Rivers University, Canada. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2015. 300 $a xiv, 256 pages : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Attachment, Mourning and Mysticism-- 1. F W.H. Myers: Loss and the Obsessive Study of Survival -- 2. Spirit Soldiers: Oliver Lodge's Raymond and Christopher -- 3. 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 Narratives -- 5. 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 poetry -- 7. ''Misty-schism': the Psychological Roots of Aldous Huxley's Mystical Modernism -- 8. After-life/After-word: the Culture of Mourning and Mysticism. 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a World War, 1914-1918 $z Great Britain $x Literature and the war. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Mourning customs in literature. 650 0 $a Mysticism in literature. 650 0 $a Spiritualism in literature. 650 7 $a Englisch. $0 (DE-588)4014777-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur. $0 (DE-588)4035964-5 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Trauer. $0 (DE-588)4124326-2 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Mystizismus. $0 (DE-588)4114660-8 $2 gnd 650 7 $a Weltkrieg. $0 (DE-588)4189594-0 $2 gnd 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / World War I. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY / Religious. $2 bisacsh 776 08 $i ebook version $z 9781137332035 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171222021357.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826114904.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EFB8F924ECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search