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Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War

Women's Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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  • © 2012

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  1. Jane Elizabeth Fisher
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Prologue: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Modern Memory

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 1-25

  3. The Flâneuse: Seeing and Remembering the Shock of Modernity

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 27-38

  4. Gender and Modernity: The Things Not Named in One of Ours

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 39-72

  5. “Novels Devoted to Influenza”: Regarding War and Illness in Mrs. Dalloway

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 73-104

  6. Vision, Plague, and Apocalypse in “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 105-147

  7. Munro’s “Carried Away” and Voigt’s Kyrie: Ghostly Hauntings, Sublime Eclipses

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 149-176

  8. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Developing World: Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emecheta’s Occluded Vision

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 177-195

  9. Epilogue: Loss, Contagion, and Community

    • Jane Elizabeth Fisher
    Pages 197-201

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 203-262
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About this book

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.

About the author

JANE FISHER is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, USA. Her published writings have focused on Virginia Woolf and other twentieth-century women writers.

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