Description
Product ID: | 9780231185752 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Modernist Latitudes |
Title: | Viral Modernism |
Subtitle: | The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature |
Authors: | Author: Elizabeth Outka |
Page Count: | 344 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Viral Modernism reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, the influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, 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 pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. |
Imprint Name: | Columbia University Press |
Publisher Name: | Columbia University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-10-22 |