Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text - Hardcover

Comley, Professor Nancy R.; Scholes, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300059671 ISBN 13: 9780300059670

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway has long been regarded as a fiercely heterosexual writer who advocated and embodied an exaggerated masculinity. This witty and intelligent book, the first to focus exclusively on gender in Hemingway's writing, presents a new view of the author, demonstrating that issues of gender and sexuality are more complex and subtle in his work than has ever been imagined.
Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes reread the Hemingway Text - his published and unpublished writing and what is known about his life - and show that gender was one of his conscious preoccupations. They explore the anguish and uncertainty beneath the blunt facade of Papa Hemingway; they examine a range of Hemingway's fictional women in such works as The Sun Also Rises and For whom the Bell Tolls and suggest that his best representations of women take on attributes of gender commonly viewed as male; they discuss how lesbianism, sex changes, and miscegenation appear in Hemingway's early and late writing; and they analyze examples of homosexual desire among boys and men in Hemingway's stories of bullfighters and soldiers. Offering new readings of familiar and previously unknown Hemingway texts, this book will change the way this author is read and evaluated.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy R. Comley is associate professor of English and director of composition at Queens College, City University of New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300059671
• ISBN 13: 9780300059670
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168