Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Chapter One. INTRODUCING THE PANDEMIC 1
5. PART I. Pandemic Realism: Making an Atmosphere Visible
6. Chapter Two. Untangling War and Plague 43
7. Chapter Three. Domestic Pandemic: Thomas Wolfe and William Maxwell 75
8. PART II. Pandemic Modernism
9. Chapter Four. On Seeing Illness: Virginia Woolf ’s Mrs. Dalloway 103
10. Chapter Five. A Wasteland of Influenza: T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land 142
11. Chapter Six. Apocalyptic Pandemic: W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” 167
12. PART III. Pandemic Cultures
13. Chapter Seven. Spiritualism, Zombies, and the Return of the Dead 199
14. Coda. THE STRUCTURE OF ILLNESS, THE SHAPE OF LOSS 243
15. NOTES 255
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY 297
17. INDEX 313