Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny

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Hemingway, Trauma and Masculinity: In the Garden of the Uncanny is at once a model of literary interpretation and a psycho-critical reading of Hemingway’s life and art. This book is a provocative and theoretically sophisticated inquiry into the traumatic origins of the creative impulse and the dynamics of identity formation in Hemingway. Building on a body of wound-theory scholarship, the book seeks to reconcile the tensions between opposing Hemingway camps, while moving beyond these rivalries into a broader analysis of the relationship between trauma, identity formation and art in Hemingway. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Entering the Garden—The Genealogy of a Reading (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 3-14 Eden and Its Discontents (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 15-32 The Mother of Invention: The Birth of the Twin (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 33-71 Sisters of the Forest (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 73-104 The Forest of Four Wounds: Hemingway and the Sawyer’s Daughter (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 105-136 As One Animal of the Forest: “The Last Good Country” of Sibling Eros (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 137-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 The Father of the Forest: Identity Formation and Hemingway’s Naturalist Calling (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 167-192 An Uncanny Genealogy: Agassiz, Roosevelt, and Pound (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 193-222 A Father’s Fall from Grace (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 223-243 The Rise of the Old Brute (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 245-269 The Tabula Fabulas: Re-Reading Hemingway’s First Narratives (Stephen Gilbert Brown)....Pages 271-302 Back Matter ....Pages 303-306