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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.
Contents
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