Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature

Author/Contributor(s):	Outka, Elizabeth
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	10/22/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.