J Fisher

Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War

Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-312-23449-2
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780312234492
• ISBN-10: 031223449X
• Artikelnr.: 35455252

Autorenporträt

JANE FISHER is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA. Her published writings have focused on Virginia Woolf and other twentieth-century women writers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Remembering War, Forgetting Influenza Women's Time and Influenza Reading Mass Media, Reading Illness Contagion in the Modern City The Heart and its Discontents: Sentimental Literary Conventions and Influenza Narratives The Restorative Powers of Seeing and Connecting Recovering the Future Epidemics, Gender, and Narrative at the Millennium