Hemingway and women : female critics and the female voice

Broer, Lawrence R. (Added Author). Holland, Gloria, 1945- (Added Author).

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 The Garden of Eden. Other essays address the real women in Hemingway's life -- those who cared for him, competed with him, and, ultimately, helped to shape his art. While Hemingway was certainly influenced by traditional perceptions of women, these essays show that he was also aware of the struggle of the emerging new woman of his time. Making this gender struggle a primary concern of his fiction, these critics argue, Hemingway created women with strength, depth, and a complexity that readers are only beginning to appreciate.

Record details

ISBN: 9780817351502
ISBN: 0817351507
ISBN: 9780817311360
ISBN: 081731136X
ISBN: 0817381716
ISBN: 9780817381714
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 353 pages)
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Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-340) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	In love with papa / Linda Patterson Miller -- Re-reading women II: the example of Brett, Hadley, Duff, and women's scholarship / Jamie Barlowe -- The sun hasn't set yet: Brett Ashley and the code hero debate / Kathy G. Willingham -- The romance of desire in Hemingway's fiction / Linda Wagner-Martin -- "I'd rather not hear": women and men in conversation in "cat in the rain" and "the sea change" / Lisa Tyler -- To have and hold not: Marie Morgan, Helen Gordon, and Dorothy Hollis / Kim Moreland -- Revisiting the code: female foundations and "the undiscovered country" in For whom the bell tolls / Gail D. Sinclair -- On defining Eden: the search for eve in the garden of sorrows / Ann Putnam -- Santiago and the eternal feminine: gendering la mar in the old man and the sea / Susan F. Beegel -- West of everything: the high cost of making men in Islands in the stream / Rose Marie Burwell -- Queer families in Hemingway's fiction / Debra A. Moddelmog -- "Go to sleep, devil": the awakening of Catherine's feminism in The garden of Eden / Amy Lovell Strong -- The light from Hemingway's garden: regendering papa / Nancy R. Comley -- Alias grace: music and the feminine aesthetic in Hemingway's early style / Hilary K. Justice -- A lifetime of flower narratives: letting the silenced voice speak / Miriam B. Mandel -- Rivalry, romance, and war reporters: Martha Gellhorn's love goes to press and the collier's files / Sandra Whipple Spanier -- Hemingway's literary sisters: the author through the eyes of women writers / Rena Sanderson.
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Language Note:	English.
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