Tense future: modernism, total war, encyclopedic form

Abstract

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 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

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