Reading Hemingway's Farewell to Arms

Glossary and Commentary

Michael Kim Roos, Robert W. Lewis

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781606353769
• eBook ISBN: 9781631013515
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Close analysis and commentary on Hemingway's great novel of love, war, and ideas

In this comprehensive guide, Lewis and Roos reveal how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway's personal experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive historical research of a time period and terrain with which he was personally unfamiliar, and the impact of his vast reading in the great works of 19th-century fiction. Ultimately, Lewis and Roos assert, Hemingway's great novel is not simply a story of love and war, as most have concluded, but an intricate novel of ideas exploring the clash of reason and faith and deep questions of epistemology.

The commentary also delves deeply into the roots of controversy surrounding the novel's treatment of gender issues through the characters of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Catherine, they argue, is far more than an object of love; she is a real feminist heroine who is responsible for Frederic's maturation in developing a capacity for true love.

Written in clear and accessible prose that will appeal to scholars and Hemingway neophytes alike, Reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms is the most sweeping guide yet available to Hemingway's finest novel and contributes to a richer understanding of the writer's entire body of work.

INDEX

Abruzzi (Italy), 37–39, 42, 48–49, 53, 112, 146, 175, 284; earthquake, 46–47

Across the River and into the Trees (Hemingway, novel), 11, 25; Order of the Brusadelli, 205; Renata, 25; Richard Cantwell, 11, 25, 59, 93, 134, 168, 205, 222

Adams, Henry, 47, 68, 82–83

Africana/L’Africaine (The African Woman) (Meyerbeer), 247

Aida (Verdi), 146

Albertini, Luigi, 162

Alexander VI (pope), 195

Alexander the Great, 91

Alighieri, Dante, 154, 155, 195

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 3, 73

All the Sad Young Men (Fitzgerald), 3

“Alpine Idyll, An” (Hemingway, short story), 87

Alpini, 92

Amalfi, 36–37, 43, 47

Amalfian Laws, 36

American Caravan, The (Schneider), 87

Americani sul Grappa (Americans on the Grappa) (Cecchin), 90

American League, 162

American Red Cross Hospital, 42–44, 113, 121–22, 127, 136, 140, 144, 165, 170

Anarchism, 220, 229

Anglo-American Club, 144, 159, 207

Antony, Mark, 127

Apostle Paul, 194

Aquila (Italy), 112

Arc de Triomphe, 155

Arc du Carrousel, 155

Arco della Pace (Arch of Peace), 154, 155

Asti Spumante, 33

Athanasius of Alexandria, 87

Avezzano quake, 46–47

Aymo, Bartolomeo, 210, 219

Aymo, Bartolomeo, in FTA, 210, 213, 217, 219–20, 223, 226, 229–30

Bacall, Lauren, 8

Badoglio, Pietro, 207

Baedecker, Karl, 26, 30, 44, 66–67, 79, 115–16, 127, 138, 171, 174, 176, 184–85, 190, 212, 220, 225, 249–50, 278, 280, 301

Bainsizza plateau (Italy), 143, 144, 159, 190, 199, 202–4

Baker, Carlos, 4, 9, 96, 146, 161, 172, 185, 189

Baker, Sheridan, 81, 99

Bakewell, Charles M., 228, 231, 232

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Hemingway’s Anxiety of Influence
• Abbreviations for the Works of Ernest Hemingway Used in This Book
• Series Note
• Front Matter
• Book One
• Book Two
• Book Three
• Book Four
• Book Five
• Works Cited
• Index