关键词：
death
history of science
First World War
grief
memory and remembrance
spiritualism
Modern History (1700 to 1945)
psychical research
history of emotions
history of magic and religion
British Empire
ISBN:
(数字)9781526179630 ISBN:
(纸本)9781526164971
摘要：
In the aftermath of the Great War, Britons read prophecies about the coming new millennium, experimented with séances and claimed to see the ghosts of their loved ones in dreams and in photographs. On the battlefields, soldiers had premonitions and attributed their survival to angelic, psychic or spiritual forces. Many of these individuals believed their experiences were based on scientific facts. Beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century, renowned British scientists, politicians and authors endorsed spiritualism, the belief in the survival of the human personality after death and the possibility of communication between the living and dead. Others took seriously the possibility of telepathy, a term first coined by the Society for Psychical Research in the 1880s. During the outbreak of the Great War, a greater segment of the British population turned to these movements to understand the slaughter of their children, brothers, husbands and friends in the furnace of industrial warfare. This book explores their ghostly encounters to offer a new emotional history of the Great War, one that contrasts sharply with the legacy of the war, and modernity itself, as a disenchanting experience.
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