Retrospective Radicalism: Politics and History in Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms

Journal article

Barbara Foley and Peter Gardner

College Literature, Vol.44(1), pp.1-29

2017

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Title: Retrospective Radicalism: Politics and History in Ernest Hemingway s A Farewell to Arms
Author/Creator: Barbara Foley
Peter Gardner
Publication Details: College Literature, Vol.44(1), pp.1-29
Annotation: Argues that a close examination of the novel s focus on war and fascism reveals both an underlying political allegory and the author s leftist sympathies. Identifies other early works with leftist leanings such as In Another Country and A Way You ll Never Be before exploring the significance of the novel s use of specific place names (e.g. Turin and Imola) and inclusion of socioeconomic commentary. Reads the deaths of Catherine and the baby as signaling the failure of revolutionary possibility and Frederic s response as an indication of Hemingway s understanding of his own complicity as a Red Cross volunteer in that political defeat.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132030403691