Title
The Romance of Desire in Hemingway’s Fiction
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Contending that Hemingway equated love with erotic desire, Wagner-Martin argues that most of his texts are romances in which female characters exist in relation to the male. Drawing on John G. Cawelti’s theories of romance, Wagner-Martin provides a detailed analysis of A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls to illustrate how even war scenes reinforce the conventional romance. Includes a brief discussion of A Moveable Feast, “A Room on the Garden Side,” and Hemingway’s 1950s letters to Adriana Ivancich to ultimately characterize Hemingway as “an inventive writer of erotica.”
Date
2002
Pages
54-69
COinS
Citation
Broer, Lawrence R. and Gloria Holland, eds. Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.