Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918â 1919, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Elizabeth Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemicâ s hidden but widespread presence.
Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918â 1919, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Elizabeth Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemicâ s hidden but widespread presence.
Elizabeth Outka is associate professor of English at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic (2009).
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Acknowledgments 1. Introducing the Pandemic Part I. Pandemic Realism: Making an Atmosphere Visible 2. Untangling War and Plague: Willa Cather and Katherine Anne Porter 3. Domestic Pandemic: Thomas Wolfe and William Maxwell Part II. Pandemic Modernism 4. On Seeing Illness: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 5. A Wasteland of Influenza: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land 6. Apocalyptic Pandemic: W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" Part III. Pandemic Cultures 7. Spiritualism, Zombies, and the Return of the Dead Coda: The Structure of Illness, the Shape of Loss Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments 1. Introducing the Pandemic Part I. Pandemic Realism: Making an Atmosphere Visible 2. Untangling War and Plague: Willa Cather and Katherine Anne Porter 3. Domestic Pandemic: Thomas Wolfe and William Maxwell Part II. Pandemic Modernism 4. On Seeing Illness: Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 5. A Wasteland of Influenza: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land 6. Apocalyptic Pandemic: W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming" Part III. Pandemic Cultures 7. Spiritualism, Zombies, and the Return of the Dead Coda: The Structure of Illness, the Shape of Loss Notes Bibliography Index
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