A work of literary history that redefines literary modernism's development in relation to the concurrent emergence of total war and the psychological effects it created between the two world wars.

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Traumatic Earliness; I. Bukimi; II. The Precincts of Time; III. Collective Psychosis; Facing Trauma; Critical Futurities; Three Interwars; Weak Modernism; Part One; 1. On the Partiality of Total War; The Case of L. E. O. Charlton; Intimations of Totality; Interwar Air Power Theory; Rival Preemptions of Law and War; National Totality and Colonial Air Control; Bombing Display I; Bombing Display II; 2. Perpetual Suspense: Virginia Woolf's Wartime Gothic; Morphologies of Suspense; Mark Time; Mrs. Dalloway and the Gaze of Total War; The Years: Immunities Lost and Found; Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid; 3. Fantasias of the Archive: Hamilton's Savage and Jenkinson's Manual; A Promise of Terror to Come; Savage Foreclosures; Declining Fertility; Jenkinson's Manual; War Archives: Theory and Performance; Thoughts on Archives in an Air Raid; The Death Drive of the Archive; Part Two; 4. Encyclopedic Modernism; Against Epic; Revisiting the Encyclopedie; The Eleventh; Encyclopedic Narrative; Modern Epic; Pace Bersani; 5. The Shield of Ulysses; Ulysses' Encyclopedism; Encyclopedia Prophetica; Urban Violence and Amity Lines; Theater of Total War; Scattering; 6. War Shadowing: Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End; Uncyclopedia Britannica; Total Worry; Futures in Furniture; Conclusion: Perpetual Interwar; Appendix: Chapter Abstracts; Bibliography; Index