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.
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Introduction: Remembering War, Forgetting Influenza Women’s Time and Influenza Reading Mass Media, Reading Illness Contagion in the Modern City The Heart and its Discontents: Sentimental Literary Conventions and Influenza Narratives The Restorative Powers of Seeing and Connecting Recovering the Future Epidemics, Gender, and Narrative at the MillenniumOm författaren
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.Köp den här e-boken och få 1 till GRATIS!
Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 262 ● ISBN 9781137054388 ● Filstorlek 14.9 MB ● Utgivare Palgrave Macmillan US ● Stad New York ● Land US ● Publicerad 2016 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4895487 ● Kopieringsskydd Social DRM