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Sara Sermini, « Viral Modernism. The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature », Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, ID : 10670/1.d15w8n
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The question behind Elizabeth Outka’s essay, Viral Modernism, is extremely topical: what are the effects of pandemic diseases on literature? The author examines in particular the effects of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic on Modernism, reversing the critical gaze that tends to consider the consequences of the war to be more relevant and impactful in the shaping of modernist literature. “We are trained in modernism to see the trauma of war but not the trauma of the pandemic” (4), writes the a...