Title
Hemingway and the Modern Woman: Brett Ashley and the Flapper Tradition
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Draws on feminist theory to analyze Hemingway’s depiction of female characters negotiating the oppositional constructions of traditional and modern femininity. Doss focuses on Brett of The Sun Also Rises and Helen of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” to show their resistance to the easy categorization of the New Woman stereotype in favor of a more complex identity construction. Provides pedagogical strategies for introducing students to the genres of femininity prior to World War I to demonstrate modernism’s departure from tradition.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
129-141
COinS
Citation
Kale, Verna, ed. Teaching Hemingway and Gender. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.