Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War - Women''s Narratives of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Millennium

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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 Millennium

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• Authors: J Fisher, J. Fisher, Jane Fisher, Jane Elizabeth Fisher, Nancy Fisher, FISHER JANE
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2004
• EAN: 9780312234492
• ISBN: 978-0-312-23449-2
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction & related items, Fiction, History of Medicine, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Medicine—History