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Elizabeth Outka

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  • Black and white photo of a beach with a wooden row boat beached on the shore.

    The Pandemic Has Given Us a Bad Case of Narrative Vertigo; Literature Can Help

    In the work of writers like W.B. Yeats and Virginia Woolf, we can find new ways to tell our own stories.
    by Elizabeth Outka via Washington Post
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on January 25, 2022
  • The Oakland Municipal Auditorium set up as a hospital, with Red Cross nurses tending to flu patients, 1918.

    The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Millions. So Why Does Its Cultural Memory Feel So Faint?

    A new book suggests that the plague’s horrors haunt modernist literature between the lines.
    by Rebecca Onion, Elizabeth Outka via Slate
    This publication restricts nonsubscriber access to some or all of its articles.
    on May 3, 2020
  • A hospital filled with patients during the influenza pandemic of 1918

    How Pandemics Seep into Literature

    The literature that arose from the influenza pandemic speaks to our current moment in profound ways, offering connections in the exact realms where art excels.
    by Elizabeth Outka via The Paris Review on April 8, 2020
  • 1918 influenza poster from the Rensselaer County Tuberculosis Association.

    Zombie Flu: How the 1919 Influenza Pandemic Fueled the Rise of the Living Dead

    Did mass graves in the influenza pandemic help give rise to the living dead?
    by Elizabeth Outka via The Conversation on October 28, 2019
Book
Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature
Elizabeth Outka
2019
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