Abstract
Abstract Home and war seem to be spaces set apart, one defined by the rules and order of society and the other by the absolute, order-undoing destruction of battle. Yet for those families who endure war even from afar, and for those who return from war, its violence continues to fester unseen. Through a reading of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and David Jones’s World War I epic In Parenthesis, this essay interrogates that duality through the way in which the parenthetical, repressed violence of World War I steals into the home, threatening to undermine its foundations. These works, each with its emphasis on either home or front, present a complex view of that war as well as its dark, lingering influence. Ranging from the home to the trenches, Woolf and Jones unfurl a scene of violence, composed of countless parentheticals, that presents the Great War not as a space apart but as an invasive event.
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