Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond

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