Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond

Chapter 1 Introduction: Attachment, Mourning, and Mysticism

Chapter 2 F. W. H. Myers: Loss and the Obsessive Study of Survival

Chapter 3 Spirit Soldiers: Oliver Lodge’s Raymond and Christopher

Chapter 4 From Parodist to Proselytizer: Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Vital Message”

Chapter 5 “Well-Remembered Voices”: Mourning and Spirit Communication in Barrie’s and Kipling’s First World War Narratives

Chapter 6 Mourning, the War, and the “New Mysticism” in May Sinclair and Virginia Woolf

Chapter 7 Purgatorial Passions: “The Ghost” (aka Wilfred Owen) in Owen’s Poetry

Chapter 8 “Misty-schism” : The Psychological Roots of Aldous Huxley’s Mystical Modernism