The gun and the pen : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization
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The gun and the pen : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization
Oxford University Press, 2008
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Gandal contends that The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises and The Sound and the Fury were all written by men who were greatly influenced by their shared frustration of not serving in the American military's colossal war effort. At the same time, these same authors also observed, among other startling developments, the Army's first egalitarian treatment of ethnic or hyphenated-Americans in regard to officer selection. The Great War mobilization
shaped large-scale shifts in American life, including the meritocratic assignment of recruits to military rank based on intelligence testing, rather than Anglo-social and family background; an unprecedented military propaganda campaign aimed at fighting venereal disease and the redefinition of masculinity as chaste,
chivalrous and athletic; the incarceration of tens of thousands of prostitutes as well as "promiscuous" women in an effort to police American female sexual behavior; and a dramatic but failed effort to ban sexual contact between American troops and French prostitutes. Mobilization Fiction involves a fundamental rethinking of these three novels, as well as other modernist postwar prose of the 1920s and 30s, in view of this essential history of the Great War mobilization.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Argument
- Chapter 2 Methodology and Scholarly Context
- Part II:
- Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner and the 1920s
- Chapter 3 The Great Gatsby and The Great War:
- Intelligence Testing, The Militarys New Man, and The Charity Girl
- Chapter 4 The Sun Also Rises and Mobilization Wounds:
- Joke Fronts, Military-School Wannabes, and Postwar Jewish Quotas
- Chapter 5 The Sound and the Fury and the Feebleminded
- Chapter 6 Post-Mobilization Romance:
- From Military Rejection to Modernist Tragedy and Symbolism
- Part III:
- The 1930s and After
- Chapter 7 Post-Mobilization Kinkiness:
- Barnes, West, Miller and the Militarys Frankness about Sex and Venereal Disease
- Chapter 8 The Sound and the Fury Redux and the End of the WWI Mobilization Novel
- Chapter 9 Afterword: Here We Go Again:
- WWII Mobilization Blues in William Burroughss Junky
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