Timothy C. Baker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638123
- eISBN:
- 9780748651788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638123.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter discusses Brown's nonfiction prose. It tries to explain how Brown's own analyses of his life and fiction both differ from and confirm previous findings. It looks at the sense of ...
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This chapter discusses Brown's nonfiction prose. It tries to explain how Brown's own analyses of his life and fiction both differ from and confirm previous findings. It looks at the sense of community as a geographico-historical rootedness, and then considers the idea of the community, which has become a dominant strand of modern philosophical thought. It notes that the parallels between Nancy, Blanchot and Georges Bataille's complex views of community and that of Brown explain Brown's focus on individual death.Less
This chapter discusses Brown's nonfiction prose. It tries to explain how Brown's own analyses of his life and fiction both differ from and confirm previous findings. It looks at the sense of community as a geographico-historical rootedness, and then considers the idea of the community, which has become a dominant strand of modern philosophical thought. It notes that the parallels between Nancy, Blanchot and Georges Bataille's complex views of community and that of Brown explain Brown's focus on individual death.
Geoffrey W. Rice
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- March 2022
- ISBN:
- 9780192843739
- eISBN:
- 9780191926341
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192843739.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter uses new data from newspaper evidence to chart a clear pattern of declining public remembrance of the 1918 flu in New Zealand between the world wars, reaching a nadir of forgetting in ...
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This chapter uses new data from newspaper evidence to chart a clear pattern of declining public remembrance of the 1918 flu in New Zealand between the world wars, reaching a nadir of forgetting in the 1950s, followed by a gradual re-remembering from the 1970s, boosted by detailed academic research in the 1980s, to reach a peak of remembrance in the centenary year of 2018. Reasons for the decline in remembrance are suggested, including the distractions of the 1930s Depression and the Second World War, the advent of antibiotics and vaccines which made influenza less of a feared killer disease and the absence of social history from school and university curricula. Academic research began to reverse this decline from the 1970s: New Zealand was the first country in the world whose 1918 flu mortality was analysed from individual death records. When SARS and ‘bird flu’ revived public interest in the 1918 pandemic, New Zealand’s Pandemic Plan included specific ‘lessons’ from 1918. These were rehearsed at the unveiling of a national memorial to 1918 flu victims in November 2019, and probably contributed to New Zealand’s swift response to COVID-19.Less
This chapter uses new data from newspaper evidence to chart a clear pattern of declining public remembrance of the 1918 flu in New Zealand between the world wars, reaching a nadir of forgetting in the 1950s, followed by a gradual re-remembering from the 1970s, boosted by detailed academic research in the 1980s, to reach a peak of remembrance in the centenary year of 2018. Reasons for the decline in remembrance are suggested, including the distractions of the 1930s Depression and the Second World War, the advent of antibiotics and vaccines which made influenza less of a feared killer disease and the absence of social history from school and university curricula. Academic research began to reverse this decline from the 1970s: New Zealand was the first country in the world whose 1918 flu mortality was analysed from individual death records. When SARS and ‘bird flu’ revived public interest in the 1918 pandemic, New Zealand’s Pandemic Plan included specific ‘lessons’ from 1918. These were rehearsed at the unveiling of a national memorial to 1918 flu victims in November 2019, and probably contributed to New Zealand’s swift response to COVID-19.
