War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway’s Early Life and Writings

Contents

CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout Hemingway in Kansas City: The True Dope on Violence and Creative Sources in a Vile and Lively Place 1 Steve Paul Ernest Hemingway, 1917–1918: First Work, First War 14 John Fenstermaker Love in the Time of Influenza: Hemingway and the 1918 Pandemic 36 Susan F. Beegel Hemingway: A Typical Doughboy 53 Jennifer D. Keene “Pleasant, Isn’t It?”: The Language of Hemingway and His World War I Contemporaries 72 Ellen Andrews Knodt Looking at Horses: Destructive Spectatorship in The Sun Also Rises 94 Jennifer Haytock Idealism, Deadlock, and Decimation: The Italian Experience of World War I in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Emilio Lussu’s Sardinian Brigade 113 Patrick J. Quinn and Steven Trout The Fragmented Origins of Ernest Hemingway’s “A Natural History of the Dead” 131 Matthew Forsythe v A Way It Never Was: Propaganda and Shell Shock in “Soldier’s Home” and “A Way You’ll Never Be” 150 Celia M. Kingsbury All Quiet on the Midwestern Front: “Soldier’s Home” 169 William Blazek Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home”: The Kansas Welcome Association, Abbreviations, and World War I Archives 190 Daryl W. Palmer Getting to the Truth: Hemingway, Cather, and the Testimony of Two World Wars 202 Daniel Clayton The Need for Narrative in Our Time: Hemingway’s “Tragic Adventure” and Regis University’s Stories from Wartime 221 Thomas G. Bowie Jr. That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway’s Theory of the Vision of the Dying 242 Mark Cirino Dangerous Families: A Midwestern Exorcism 260 Lawrence Broer Hemingway and Women at the Front: Blowing Bridges in A Farewell to Arms, The Fifth Column, and For Whom the Bell Tolls 286 Kim Moreland Across the Canal and into Kansas City: Hemingway’s Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and into the Trees 324 Matthew Nickel Chronology 350 List of Contributors 352 Index 356 vi contents ...