Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: A Reference Guide
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: A Reference Guide
By (Author) Linda Wagner-Martin
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
30th April 2003
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
813.52
Physical Properties
Hardback
192
Description
Wagner-Martin, a respected scholar of American modernism and former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, offers a comprehensive guide to the novel's genesis, plot, background, themes, style, and critical reception. Each chapter overviews a significant element of the novel and includes thorough documentation. A bibliographic essay is also included. A landmark of American literature, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (1929) is one of the most widely read and studied novels of the 20th century. Written by a respected scholar of American modernism and former president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society, this reference is a comprehensive guide to the novel's genesis, plot, background, themes, style, and critical reception. Each chapter overviews a significant element of the novel and includes thorough documentation. The volume closes with a bibliographic essay, which provides summaries of current criticism in such fields as gender and feminist theory, medical humanities, and lesbian and gay studies.
Author Bio
LINDA WAGNER-MARTIN is Hanes Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has published numerous books, including the Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway (2000), and was president of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society.
