Title
In Uniform Code: Catherine Barkley’s Wartime Nursing Service in A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Sociohistorical reading of Catherine’s role as a war nurse. Huang draws on nursing memoirs from World War I in her exploration of Catherine’s duties, disillusionment with wartime service, and nurturing of the wounded Frederic who only realizes upon her death that it was her vocation as a nurse that enabled her to face suffering and pain with control and strength. Points to similarities in their wartime experiences, concluding that A Farewell to Arms “illustrates how the trauma of World War I underwrote history and identity for women as well as men.”
Published in
Twentieth-Century Literature
Volume
62
Issue
2
Date
2016
Pages
197-222
COinS
Citation
Huang, Michelle N. “In Uniform Code: Catherine Barkley’s Wartime Nursing Service in A Farewell to Arms.” Twentieth-Century Literature 62, no. 2 (June 2016): 197-222.