Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2019
Abstract
While “the image of the ‘shell-shocked soldier’ remains one of the most enduring of the First World War” (Keown, “Statements”), it is nearly impossible to find information about women’s trauma from World War I. While women were noncombatants, they were still heavily involved in warfare: they built the machines, drove the ambulances, and tried to keep their city from being bombed. However, after the war, their psychological trauma was not taken seriously. However, these war experiences still carried significant psychological weight for those who bore them. May Sinclair is one example of this: she was on the Belgian warfront for seventeen days, but it “would shape her fiction for the next ten years” (Jones).
Recommended Citation
Squires, Sydney, "Steven Acroyd Goes to War: Expressions of the War Experience in “The Victim”" (2019). Modernist Short Story Project. 27.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mssp/27