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Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War(Cultural History of Modern War)

Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War(Cultural History of Modern War)


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Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939. The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grotesque figures. Modernist writers released memoirs condemning the war as a profane and disenchanting experience. Yet British and Dominion soldiers and their families also read prophecies about the coming new millennium, experimented with seances, and claimed to see the ghosts of their loved ones in dreams and in photographs. On the battlefields, they had premonitions and attributed their survival to angelic, psychic, or spiritual forces. For many, the war was an enchanting experience that offered proof of another world and the transcendental properties of the mind. Between 1914 and 1939, an array of ghosts lived in the minds of British subjects as they navigated the shocking toll that death in modern war exerted in their communities.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Prophecies of war and peace: spiritualism and the new millennium 2 A psychic laboratory: numinous experiences and spiritualism on the Great War’s battlefield 3 An empire of sensation: telepathy, crisis apparitions and the moment of death on the home Front 4 Living with the ghosts of war: death and mourning in the séance room 5 The army of the living dead: spirit photography and the public denial of death Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Kyle Falcon is a Historian specialising in the British Empire during the First World War. He is based in Ontario, Canada.

Review :
'This is a rich academic study... it shows an impressive skill in locating individual case studies to explore in both printed and archival materials in ways that can illuminate larger historical trajectories.' Prof. Roger Luckhurst


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781526164971
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 602 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1526164973
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jul 2023
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Cultural History of Modern War
  • Sub Title: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and the Great War
  • Width: 138 mm


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