Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond

Grappling with Ghosts

George M. Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-67347-6 (ISBN)

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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.

George M. Johnson is Professor and Chair of the English Department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. His publications include Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction, J.D. Beresford, and an award-winning comic play, Still Life With Nudes. His screenplay The Wonder was a finalist in the British Independent Film Festival.

Preface 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 Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XIV, 256 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Aldous Huxley • Arthur Conan Doyle • Attachment Theory • First World War • Frederic Myers • Ghosts • J.M. Barrie • Loss • May Sinclair • Mourning • Mysticism • Object Relations Theory • Oliver Lodge • Psychical research • Rudyard Kipling • Spiritualism • Virginia Woolf • Wilfred Owen • World War One
ISBN-10	1-349-67347-1 / 1349673471
ISBN-13	978-1-349-67347-6 / 9781349673476
Zustand	Neuware