A History of the Great Influenza Pandemics: Death, Panic and Hysteria, 1830-1920

ISBN-13: 9781350160088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 328 str.

Mark Honigsbaum

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List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: 'The Sphinx of Epidemic Diseases' 1. Pre-Modern Influenza 2.' An Epidemic Started by Telegraph': News, Sensation and Science 3. 'An Inexpressible Dread': Influenza, Nervousness and Psychosis 4. Demons and Disembodied Spirits: Influenza, Masculinity and Gothic Production at the Fin -de-Siecle 5.'Death is Very Busy Just Now': Influenza, Celebrity and Suffering 6. ' A sense of Dread is Very General': The First World War, the Spanish Flu and the Northcliffe Press 7. The 'Forgotten' Pandemic: Flu, Trauma and Modern Memory 8. Apocalypse Redux Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index