- Title
- Sewing Up the Tears: Medical Systems and the Great War in Wharton's and Hemingway's Short Fiction
- Author/Creator
- Jennifer Haytock
- Publication Details
- Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.45-65
- Annotation
- Compares Wharton's treatment of the physically and psychologically injured in her short fiction with Hemingway's, detailing the establishment of medical systems during World War I designed to treat and return soldiers to the front as quickly as possible, along with the authors' firsthand experience with these medical bureaucracies. Through comparing Wharton's "Coming Home" and "Writing a War Story" with Hemingway's "In Another Country" and "Now I Lay Me," Haytock concludes that both authors broaden the trope of the passive soldier in mechanized trench warfare to include the injured soldier's post-combat treatment in a medical system that takes over his life.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136397203691
Book chapter
Sewing Up the Tears: Medical Systems and the Great War in Wharton's and Hemingway's Short Fiction
Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism, pp.45-65
2019
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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