Sites of memory, sites of mourning: the Great War in European cultural history

Catastrophe and consolation. 1. Homecomings: the return of the dead; 2. Communities in mourning; 3. Spiritualism and the 'Lost Generations'; 4. War memorials and the mourning process

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.

Homecomings : the return of the dead

Communities in mourning

Spiritualism and the 'lost generation'

War memorials and the mourning process

Mythologies of 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.