Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War [electronic resource] : Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic /
Fisher, J.author.
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.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Prologue The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Modern Memory; Chapter 1 The Fldneuse: Seeing and Remembering the Shock of Modernity; Chapter 2 Gender and Modernity: The Things Not Named in One of Ours; Chapter 3 ""Novels Devoted to Influenza"": Regarding War and Illness in Mrs. Dalloway; Chapter 4 Vision, Plague, and Apocalypse in ""Pale Horse, Pale Rider""; Chapter 5 Munro's ""Carried Away"" and Voigt's Kyrie: Ghostly Hauntings, Sublime Eclipses
Chapter 6 The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Developing World: Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emecheta's Occluded VisionEpilogue Loss, Contagion, and Community; Notes; Index
Includes index.
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.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Fiction.
Sociology.
Medicine—History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
History of Medicine.