Hemingway and women : female critics and the female voice / edited by Lawrence R. Broer and Gloria Holland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Broer, Lawrence R.

Holland, Gloria, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Characters--Women.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Feminism and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Feminism and literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Sex role in literature.

Women in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America's foremost writers. Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from women scholars who challenge traditional views of Hemingway and women. The essays in this collection range from discussions of Hemingway's famous heroines Brett Ashley and Catherine Barkley to examinations of the central role of gender in his short stories and in the novel Th

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Abbreviations; PART 1: HEROINES AND HEROES, THE FEMALE PRESENCE; 1. In Love with Papa; 2. Re-Reading Women II: The Example of Brett, Hadley, Duff, and Women's Scholarship; 3. The Sun Hasn't Set Yet: Brett Ashley and the Code Hero Debate; 4. The Romance of Desire in Hemingway's Fiction; 5. "I'd Rather Not Hear": Women and Men in Conversation in "Cat in the Rain" and "The Sea Change"; 6. To Have and Hold Not: Marie Morgan, Helen Gordon, and Dorothy Hollis; 7. Revisiting the Code: Female Foundations and "The Undiscovered Country" in For Whom the Bell Tolls

8. On Defiling Eden: The Search for Eve in the Garden of Sorrows9. Santiago and the Eternal Feminine: Gendering La Mar in The Old Man and the Sea; 10. West of Everything: The High Cost of Making Men in Islands in the Stream; 11. Queer Families in Hemingway's Fiction; 12. "Go to sleep, Devil": The Awakening of Catherine's Feminism in The Garden of Eden; 13. The Light from Hemingway's Garden: Regendering Papa; PART 2: MOTHERS, WIVES, SISTERS; 14. Alias Grace: Music and the Feminine Aesthetic in Hemingway's Early Style; 15. A Lifetime of Flower Narratives: Letting the Silenced Voice Speak

16. Rivalry, Romance, and War Reporters: Martha Gellhorn's Love Goes to Press and the Collier's Files17. Hemingway's Literary Sisters: The Author through the Eyes of Women Writers; Notes; Works Cited; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-340) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8171-6

OCLC:

320324523