- Title
- Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms
- Author/Creator
- Laura Weinrib
- Publication Details
- Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's Wars, pp.179-196
- Annotation
- Opens with a summary of the novel's publication history and difficulties with censors before moving to a discussion of its dual love and war plotlines. Contends that while both plots deal with social infraction, their moral breeches are not equal. Weinrib explores how the love story's redeemable morality via common law marriage spotlights the war story's subversive depiction of legal but morally reprehensible episodes, including those portraying the senselessness of military rules, manipulation of military codes, and cruelty of the Italian army. Closes with a discussion of the legal and moral implications of Frederic's shooting the sergeant and desertion.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130937503691
Book chapter
Law and Legitimacy in A Farewell to Arms
Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's Wars, pp.179-196
2021
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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