Shellshock, Suicide and Septimus: Illness as a Metaphor in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

It can be said that Modernity emerged from British society’s repulsion of four years of brutal trench warfare on the Western front during the First World War. New innovations such as mustard gas, tanks, and heavy artillery fuelled a maelstrom of death and destruction on massive scales, leading to hundreds of thousands of casualties on [...]