Title
"You give a damn about so many things I don’t": Hemingway’s Gendered Sentimentalism in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
On Hemingway’s negotiation of gender within the opposing literary traditions of modernism and Victorian sentimentalism. In his analysis of the stories’ protagonists, Wilson argues that far from abandoning the emotional effusiveness of sentimental fiction, Hemingway combined it with the emotional restraint of modernism to convey an effective and compelling textual ambiguity resulting in strong emotion.
Published in
The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television
Date
2014
Pages
90-106
COinS
Citation
Wilson, Michael T. “‘You give a damn about so many things I don’t’: Hemingway’s Gendered Sentimentalism in ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.’” In The Sentimental Mode: Essays in Literature, Film and Television, edited by Jennifer A. Williamson, Jennifer Larson, and Ashley Reed, 90-106. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014.