Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918à â â 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 pandemicà â â 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 1918à â â 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 pandemicà â â 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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