Download or read book Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond written by George M. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces how iconic writers - including Arthur Conan Doyle, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley - shaped their response to the loss of loved ones in the First World War through their embrace of mysticism.