Wharton, Hemingway, and the advent of modernism / edited by Lisa Tyler ; foreword by Laura Rattray.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Tyler, Lisa, 1964- editor.

Rattray, Laura, writer of foreword.

Conference Name:

Biennial International Ernest Hemingway Society Conference (16th : 2014 : Venice, Italy), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Wharton, Edith.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Influence--Congresses.

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937--Influence--Congresses.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937.

Modernism (Literature)--United States--Congresses.

Modernism (Literature).

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 269 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first collection that examines the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, along with a foreword and an introduction, scholars from both camps explore the authors' overlapping interests, contexts, and aesthetic techniques. Thematic sections highlight components in each author's works that reveal their shared association with major trends in literary modernism, focusing on stylistic and formal experimentation, the Great War, European culture (including the expatriate movement), gender roles, technological advancements, and intertextualities between literature and popular texts. Together, the essays prove that comparative studies of Wharton and Hemingway open new avenues for understanding the broader aesthetic and cultural movements central to the development of American literary modernism in the early decades of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hemingway and Wharton: both modernists / Peter Hays

From Wharton to Hemingway: the evolution of modernism / Ellen Andrews Knodt

Sewing up the tears: medical systems and the Great War in Wharton's and Hemingway's short fiction / Jennifer Haytock

Gender, philanthropy, and the Great War in the works of Wharton and Hemingway / Milena Radeva-Costello

Emancipated from Baedeker: Wharton and Hemingway in Italy / Cecilia Macheski

Dawn and decline: contrasting spaces in Wharton's "False dawn" and Hemingway's "A very short story" / Sirpa Salenius

Too bad Hemingway never reached the reef: Wharton's Anna Leath and Hemingway's Brett Ashley / Linda Wagner-Martin

Wharton, Hemingway, and the architecture of modernism: gendered tropes of architecture and interior decoration / Lisa Tyler

Motor flight: gender, power, and the automobile / Anna Green

Wharton, Hemingway, ecclesiastes, and the modernist impulse / Dustin Faulstick

Modernism delayed, not denied: Wharton, Hemingway, and Scribner's magazine / Caroline Chamberlin Hellman

Wharton to Hemingway to Highsmith: American noir comes of age / Parley Ann Boswell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807170489

0807170488

OCLC:

1053856033

Publisher Number:

99983601866