Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Chapter One. INTRODUCING THE PANDEMIC
PART I. Pandemic Realism: Making an Atmosphere Visible
Chapter Two. Untangling War and Plague
Chapter Three. Domestic Pandemic: Thomas Wolfe and William Maxwell
PART II. Pandemic Modernism
Chapter Four. On Seeing Illness: Virginia Woolf 's Mrs. Dalloway
Chapter Five. A Wasteland of Influenza: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
Chapter Six. Apocalyptic Pandemic: W. B. Yeats's "The Second Coming"
PART III. Pandemic Cultures
Chapter Seven. Spiritualism, Zombies, and the Return of the Dead
Coda. THE STRUCTURE OF ILLNESS, THE SHAPE OF LOSS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX