Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934: The Ghosts of World War One

This book examines how the representation of the ghost—soldier in literature published between1914–1934, both marks the presence of trauma and attempts to make sense of it. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell—shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre—like.
The author argues that literary and non—literary texts ...