Title
Erectile Dysfunction and the Post War Novel: The Sun Also Rises and In Country
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Comparison study of the treatment of war-related impotence in Hemingway’s and Bobbie Ann Mason’s postwar novels, identifying both writers as operating within and challenging contemporaneous medical discourse on erectile dysfunction. Klaver reads Jake’s wound within the dominant psychological discourse on impotence at the time, suggesting that Hemingway may have been drawing attention to the inadequacy of treatment for those men suffering from physical injury.
Published in
Literature and Medicine
Volume
30
Issue
1
Date
Spring 2012
Pages
86-102
COinS
Citation
Klaver, Elizabeth. “Erectile Dysfunction and the Post War Novel: The Sun Also Rises and In Country.” Literature and Medicine” 30, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 86-102.