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The Gun and the Pen - Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization (Hardcover)
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The Gun and the Pen - Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization (Hardcover)
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In this groundbreaking work of literary and historical scholarship,
Keith Gandal shows that Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and
William Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar novels,
not by their experiences of the horrors of war but rather by their
failure to have those experiences.
These "quintessential" male American novelists of the 1920s were
all, for different reasons, deemed unsuitable as candidates for
full military service or command and the result was, Gandal
contends, that they felt themselves emasculated--not, as the usual
story goes, due to their encounters with trench warfare, but
because they got nowhere near the trenches or the real action. By
bringing to light previously unexamined archival records of the
Army, The Gun and the Pen demonstrates that the frustration of
these authors' military ambitions took place in the forgotten
context of a whole new set of methods employed in the mobilization
for the Great War--unprecedented procedures that aimed to transform
the Army into a meritocratic institution, indifferent to ethnic and
class difference (though not racial, or black-white, difference).
For these Lost Generation writers, the humiliating failure
vis-a-vis the Army became a failure to compete successfully in a
rising social order and against a new set of people. And it is that
social order and those people--these effects of mobilization, and
not other effects of the war--that the novels considered here both
register and re-imagine.
Gandal's incisive readings of the famous fiction of this era
against the backdrop of ethnicity, meritocracy, and sexuality
closes with a coda on selected works from the 1930s, including
prose by Djuna Barnes, Nathaniel West, and Henry Miller.
Provocative and original, The Gun and the Pen restores these
seminal novels to their proper historical context and proffers a
radical revision of our understanding of the impact of World War I
on twentieth-century American literature.
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