The gun and the pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization

Abstract

PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Rethinking Post-World War I Classics: Recovering the Historical Context of the 2. Methodology and the Study of Modernist Fiction PART II FITZGERALD, HEMINGWAY, FAULKNER, AND THE 1920S 3. The Great Gatsby and the Great War Army: Ethnic Egalitarianism, Intelligence Testing, the New Man, and the Charity Girl 4. The Sun Also Rises and Mobilization Wounds: Emasculation, Joke Fronts, Military School Wannabes, and Postwar Jewish Quotas 5. The Sound and the Fury and Military Rejects: The Feebleminded and the Postmobilization Erotic Triangle 6. Postmobilization Romance: Transforming Military Rejection into Modernist Tragedy and Symbolism PART III THE 1930S AND AFTER 7. Postmobilization Kinkiness: Barnes, West, Miller, and the Military's Frankness about Sex and Venereal Disease 8. The Sound and the Fury Redux and the End of the World War I Novel AFTERWORD: HERE WE GO AGAIN: WORLD WAR II MOBILIZATION BLUES IN WILLIAM BURROUGHS'S JUNKY NOTES INDEX