Shell shock and the modernist imagination : the death drive in post-World War I British fiction / Wyatt Bonikowski.

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Company, [2013], ©2013.

viii, 192 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index.

Introduction: shell shock and the traces of war -- The invisible wound: shell shock and psychoanalysis -- Transports of a wartime impressionism: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end -- The "passion of exile": Rebecca West's The return of the soldier -- "Death was an attempt to communicate": Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway -- Conclusions: the ethics and aesthetics of the death drive.