Title
The Many Faces of Defeat: Italian Ideological Contexts in Frederic Henry’s Caporetto
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Sociopolitical reading of Hemingway’s blistering account of the Caporetto retreat in A Farewell to Arms within the larger contexts of Italian ideology and World War I. Lena discusses the novel’s evolving views on the war and message regarding the threat to democracy around the world posed by fascism following the war.
Date
2017
Pages
77-95
COinS
Citation
Cirino, Mark and Mark P. Ott, eds. Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2017.