Title
"We Live in a Country Where Nothing Makes Any Difference": The Queer Sensibility of A Farewell to Arms
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Relates the novel’s treatment of “anti-normal” sexuality to the early twentieth-century theories of liberal marriage experts and sexologists. Argues that Catherine and Frederic’s nontraditional relationship and sexual fantasies oppose even today’s standard sexual conventions. Moddelmog draws on the controversial writings of British sexologist Havelock Ellis to interpret the homoerotic overtones of Rinaldi, Helen, and the priest in relation to Catherine and Frederic.
Published in
Hemingway Review
Volume
28
Issue
2
Date
Spring 2009
Pages
7-24
COinS
Citation
Moddelmog, Debra A. “‘We Live in a Country Where Nothing Makes Any Difference’: The Queer Sensibility of A Farewell to Arms.” Hemingway Review 28, no. 2 (Spring 2009): 7-24.