Viral Modernism : : The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature /

Viral Modernism : : The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature / / Elizabeth Outka.

The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
VerfasserIn:
Outka, Elizabeth,
MitwirkendeR:
Cather, Willa,
Maxwell, William,
Porter, Katherine Anne,
Wolfe, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Modernist Latitudes
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 23 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Chapter One. INTRODUCING THE PANDEMIC
  • PART I. Pandemic Realism: Making an Atmosphere Visible
  • Chapter Two. Untangling War and Plague
  • Chapter Three. Domestic Pandemic: Thomas Wolfe and William Maxwell
  • PART II. Pandemic Modernism
  • Chapter Four. On Seeing Illness: Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway
  • Chapter Five. A Wasteland of Influenza: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
  • Chapter Six. Apocalyptic Pandemic: W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming"
  • PART III. Pandemic Cultures
  • Chapter Seven. Spiritualism, Zombies, and the Return of the Dead
  • Coda. THE STRUCTURE OF ILLNESS, THE SHAPE OF LOSS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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