Title
Sewing Up the Tears: Medical Systems and the Great War in Wharton's and Hemingway's Short Fiction
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Compares Wharton's treatment of the physically and psychologically injured in her short fiction with Hemingway's, detailing the establishment of medical systems during World War I designed to treat and return soldiers to the front as quickly as possible, along with the authors' firsthand experience with these medical bureaucracies. Through comparing Wharton's "Coming Home" and "Writing a War Story" with Hemingway's "In Another Country" and "Now I Lay Me," Haytock concludes that both authors broaden the trope of the passive soldier in mechanized trench warfare to include the injured soldier's post-combat treatment in a medical system that takes over his life.
Published in
Date
2019
Pages
45-65
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.