- Title
- Marriage as Cultural Change: Henry James s The Portrait of a Lady and Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms
- Author/Creator
- John B. Vickery
- Publication Details
- The Prose Elegy: An Exploration of Modern American and British Fiction, pp.85-105
- Annotation
- Reading both novels as modern elegies for marriage, Vickery maintains that Isabel s marriage in Portrait (1881) is based on legal, religious, and moral obligations, whereas Catherine and Frederic s marriage is one of mutual emotional ecstasy. Vickery examines the elegiac tone found in both relationships, locating it in Isabel s self-sacrifice and in the abrupt ending of Catherine and Frederic s happiness caused by Catherine s death. Discusses time and how past events shadow the present, concluding that the elegiac tone of A Farewell to Arms is created through the superimposition of one past upon another the past in which Catherine is alive and with him and the more recent past in which she is dead and eternally separated from him except in memory.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015131960003691
Book chapter
Marriage as Cultural Change: Henry James s The Portrait of a Lady and Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms
The Prose Elegy: An Exploration of Modern American and British Fiction, pp.85-105
2009
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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