Physical Description
x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Homecomings : the return of the dead
Communities in mourning
Spiritualism and the "lost generation"
War memorials and the mourning process
Mythologies or war : films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred
The apocalyptic imagination in art : from anticipation to allegory
The apocalyptic imagination in war literature
War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.
ISBN
0521496829
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-297) and index.
Homecomings : the return of the dead -- Communities in mourning -- Spiritualism and the "lost generation" -- War memorials and the mourning process -- Mythologies or war : films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred -- The apocalyptic imagination in art : from anticipation to allegory -- The apocalyptic imagination in war literature -- War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred.