Abstract

Introduction Part I. Catastrophe and Consolation: 1. Homecomings: the return of the dead 2. Communities in mourning 3. Spiritualism and the 'Lost Generation' 4. War memorials and the mourning process Part II. Cultural Codes and Languages of Mourning: 5. Mythologies of war: films, popular religion, and the business of the sacred 6. The apocalyptic imagination in art: from anticipation to allegory 7. The apocalyptic imagination in war literature 8. War poetry, romanticism, and the return of the sacred 9. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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