Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts

Preface Attachment, Mourning and Mysticism 1. F. W. H. Loss and the Obsessive Study of Survival 2. Spirit Oliver Lodge's Raymond and Christopher 3. From Parodist to Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Vital Message' 4. Well-Remembered 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/ the Culture of Mourning and Mysticism Bibliography Index