David Brooks’ “Pandemics Kill Compassion, Too” (NYTIMES), Willa Cather’s One of Ours (1922) and influenza imagined as shell shock

Richard Harding Davis, “On the Fever Ship,” The Lion and The Unicorn, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1899. Illustration, Howard Chandler Christy, p.90 [Held at scanned courtesy of Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester] See David Kramer, “Infirm Soldiers in the Cuban War of Theodore Roosevelt and Richard Harding Davis”, War, Literature & the Arts: An … Continue reading David Brooks’ “Pandemics Kill Compassion, Too” (NYTIMES), Willa Cather’s One of Ours (1922) and influenza imagined as shell shock