Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond

George M. Johnson

earliest edition we have, 2015 Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2015

"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 traum...

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Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond paperback · 2016 · Palgrave Macmillan · 272 pages · 9781349673476
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond edition · 2015 · Palgrave Macmillan Limited · 9781137332035
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond hardcover · 2015 · Palgrave MacMillan · 256 pages · 9781137332028

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