The Humanities of Contagion: How Literary and Visual Representations of the “Spanish” Flu Pandemic Complement, Complicate and Calibrate COVID-19 Narratives
My article examines how literary and visual representations of the “Spanish” Flu contagion foreshadow and generate critical discourses about pandemics. D.H. Lawrence’s novella The Fox characterises paranoia about biological abnormality and loss of agency as a likely reaction to epidemic threats, Jos...
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| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2023-10-01
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| Series: | Open Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2022-0187 |