Although new historical scholarship on trauma has
expressed great interest in exploring the role of
metaphor and modernist figurative language in
writing about trauma, there has so far been
relatively little systematic scrutiny of the links
between modernist aesthetics and the shocking and
unresolved nature of traumatic history. This book,
therefore, seeks to remark on a modernist vision of
history as trauma shared by both Freud and modernist
writers. Bringing a historical vision to modernism
and reading modernist literature as a literature of
trauma, this book aims to show that...