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After surviving a severe case of influenza in 1918, Katherine Anne Porter observed, 'It simply divided my life, cut across it.' The 1918 influenza pandemic spanned the volatile early twentieth century, a time period that included the end of World War I and the granting of female suffrage in the Western world. Focusing on major novels and essays by Willa Cather, Katherine Anne Porter, and Virginia Woolf, this work examines how narratives by women writers engage the 1918 influenza pandemic, emphasizing vision as compensation for losses of both war and disease. Drawing on World War I posters, poetry, songs, drawings, and photographs, the argument offers a persuasive framework for connecting war, disease, and gender to the shock of the modern in twentieth-century culture.
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Prologue The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Modern Memory | p. 1 |
| The Fldneuse: Seeing and Remembering the Shock of Modernity | p. 27 |
| Gender and Modernity: The Things Not Named in One of Ours | p. 39 |
| "Novels Devoted to Influenza": Regarding War and Illness in Mrs. Dalloway | p. 73 |
| Vision, Plague, and Apocalypse in "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" | p. 105 |
| Munro's "Carried Away" and Voigt's Kyrie: Ghostly Hauntings, Sublime Eclipses | p. 149 |
| The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Developing World: Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emecheta's Occluded Vision | p. 177 |
| Epilogue Loss, Contagion, and Community | p. 197 |
| Notes | p. 203 |
| Index | p. 251 |
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ISBN: 9780312234492
ISBN-10: 031223449X
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 288
Published: 3rd July 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.1
x 1.6
Weight (kg): 0.45
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