A farewell to arms : authoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism / Ernest Hemingway ; edited by Marc K. Dudley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961, author.

Contributor:

Dudley, Marc K., 1971- editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

Norton Critical Editions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Farewell to arms.

Hemingway, Ernest.

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

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

War and literature.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 453 pages : illustrations, map, photographs ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Authoritative text backgrounds and contexts criticism

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : W. W. Norton & Company, [2026]

Summary:

"This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first edition of the novel (1929), expertly annotated for students by Marc K. Dudley and with previously censored language restored. A wide-ranging introduction detailing Hemingway's experience of World War I and the development of his writing style. Five historical images and a map of Italy showing major events in the war there. Selections from Hemingway's personal correspondence and early writings, samples of the literary and historical influences on A Farewell to Arms, other narratives of World War I, and contemporary reviews of the book. Seven modern critical essays-by scholars such as Carlos Baker, Judith Fetterley, and Susan F. Beegel-that explore the novel's central themes. A chronology and a selected bibliography" -- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

List of illustrations

Introduction

A note on the text

The text of A Farewell to Arms

Backgrounds and contexts

Letters. Agnes von Kurowsky: To Ernest Hemingway (October 25, 1918) ; To Ernest Hemingway (October 26, 1918) ; To Ernest Hemingway (November 1, 1918) ; To Ernest Hemingway (November 2, 1918) ; To Ernest Hemingway (December 13, 1918) ; To Ernest Hemingway (March 7, 1919) ; To Ernest Hemingway (December 22, 1922)

Ernest Hemingway: To his family (July 21, 1918) ; To his mother (August 29, 1918) ; To his family (October 18, 1918) ; To Maxwell Perkins (February 16, 1929)

Hemingway's early writings on World War I. Ernest Hemingway: Fascisti Party now half-million strong ; D'Annunzio ; Did Poincaré laugh in Verdun Cemetary? ; Champs d'Honneur ; Captives ; Killed Piave-July 8-1918 ; [All armies are the same...] ; Shock troops ; A very short story

Literary influences. Stephen Crane: An Episode of War ; Ford Madox Ford: from The Good Soldier ; Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est ; E.E. Cummings: [My Sweet Old Etcetera] ; John Dos Passos: The Body of an American ; Gertrude Stein: from Tender Buttons ; Sherwood Anderson: A Man of Ideas ; Henri Barbusse: from Under Fire

The World War I experience. Donald Hankey: The Fear of Death in War ; Floyd Gibbons: Wounded-How it Feels to be Shot ; G.M. Trevelyan: from Scenes from Italy's War ; Frederic Manning: from Her Privates We ; Peter Hart: from Voices from the Front ; John Keegan: Rout on the Italian Front

Criticism

Reviews. Fanny Butcher: from Chicago Daily Tribune (September 28, 1929) ; Malcolm Cowley: from New York Herald Tribune (October 6, 1929) ; Agnes W. Smith: from The New Yorker (October 12, 1929) ; Clifton P. Fadiman: from The Nation (October 30, 1929) ; Mary Ross: from Atlantic Monthly (November 1929) ; H.L. Mencken: from The American Mercury (January 1930)

Modern essays. Carlos Baker: The Mountain and the Plain ; Joyce Wexler: E.R.A for Hemingway: A Feminist Defense of A Farewell to Arms ; Judith Fetterley: from A Farewell to Arms: Hemingway's "Resentful Cryptogram" ; Trevor Dodman: from "Going All to Pieces": A Farewell to Arms as Trauma Narrative ; Debra A. Moddelmog: from "We Live in a Country Where Nothing Makes Any Difference": The Queer Sensibility of A Farewell to Arms ; Susan F. Beegel: from Love in the Time of Influenza: Hemingway and the 1918 Pandemic ; George Monteiro: Hemingway's Military Surgeons

Ernest Hemingway: A chronology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-453).

ISBN:

9780393871081

0393871088

OCLC:

1529895458