Envisioning Disease, Gender, and War

1. Prologue: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Modern Memory
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

2. The Flâneuse: Seeing and Remembering the Shock of Modernity
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

3. Gender and Modernity: The Things Not Named in One of Ours
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

4. “Novels Devoted to Influenza”: Regarding War and Illness in Mrs. Dalloway
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

5. Vision, Plague, and Apocalypse in “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

6. Munro’s “Carried Away” and Voigt’s Kyrie: Ghostly Hauntings, Sublime Eclipses
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

7. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Developing World: Elechi Amadi and Buchi Emecheta’s Occluded Vision
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

8. Epilogue: Loss, Contagion, and Community
Jane Elizabeth Fisher

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction, Gender Studies, History of Medicine