The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel.

An American teacher of literature and poetry living in Montréal, Curtis Brown, recovers Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy (1925) as a 'virus novel', venturing an integrated response to two literary questions occasioned by the recent pandemic: What might the contemporary 'Covid novel' look like?...

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Published in:	Philosophical Investigations Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 311 - 342
Main Author:	Brown, Curtis
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2024
Subjects:	Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 Influenza pandemic, 1918-1919 American literature Reputation COVID-19 American poetry Montréal (Québec)
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