Viral modernism : the influenza pandemic and interwar literature /

"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 histo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Outka, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919, in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Épidémie de grippe espagnole, 1918-1919, dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Modern > 20th century .
American literature.
English literature.
Electronic books.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. Introducing the pandemic
  • PART I. PANDEMIC REALISM: MAKING AN ATMOSPHERE VISIBLE. Chapter Two. Untangling war and plague: Willa Cather and Katherine Anne Porter
  • 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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