BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monteiro, George. “Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms—The First Sixty-Five Years: A Checklist of Criticism, Scholarship, and Commentary.” Bulletin of Bibliography 53 (4) (December 1996): 273-92.

Comprehensive, chronological list of works about the novel and its film, radio, and television adaptations through 1994.

BIOGRAPHY

Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story. New York: Scribner, 1969. 697 p.

One of the first authoritative biographies of Hemingway, with a short section on A Farewell to Arms.

Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1985, 644 p.

Biography with references to A Farewell to Arms.

CRITICISM

Baker, Carlos. Ernest Hemingway: Critiques of Four Major Novels. New York: Scribner, 1962. 199 p.

An influential collection of essays about A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea.

Bloom, Harold, Ed. Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 164 p.

Selections from Hemingway criticism, edited and with an introduction by the Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale.

Comley, Nancy, and Robert Scholes. Hemingway's Genders: Rereading the Hemingway Text. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, pp. 36-40.

A gender-related examination of how characters in the novel are represented.

Donaldson, Scott. By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway New York: Viking, 1977, pp. 151-62, 203-04.

Biographical-critical work which attempts to analyze Hemingway's thought processes through his writings; includes a chapter on Frederic as a “selfish lover” in A Farewell to Arms.

———. New Essays on A Farewell to Arms. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 140 p.

Selections from Hemingway criticism, to the end of the 1980s, with useful introduction.

Dow, William. “Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.” The Explicator 55 (Summer 1997): 224-25.

Compares A Farewell to Arms to Henri Barbusse's 1916 novel Le Feu.

Glasser, William A. “A Farewell to Arms.” The Sewanee Review 74 (April-June 1966): 453-59.

Glasser argues that Frederic begins to achieve a Christian vision of the world.

Hemingway Review 8 (Fall 1989).

Entire issue dedicated to essays on A Farewell to Arms on the sixtieth anniversary of its publication.

Hicks, Granville. The Great Tradition: An Interpretation of American Literature Since the Civil War. New York: Macmillan, 1933. 341 p.

Useful for its insight into critical views of Hemingway in the 1930s.

Lewis, Robert W. A Farewell to Arms: The War of the Words. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992. 161 p.

Comprehensive study of A Farewell to Arms, one in a series of Twayne's Masterwork Studies.

Monteiro, George, ed. Critical Essays on Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1994. 192 p.

An updated collection of scholarly materials on Hemingway, divided into four sections: composition, censorship, reviews, and criticism.

Phelan, James. “Evaluation and Resistance: The Case of Catherine Barkley.” In Reading People, Reading Plots. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989, pp. 165-88.

A rhetorical analysis of the character of Catherine, in partial response to Fetterley's criticism, emphasizing Hemingway's narrative structure and Catherine's progression within it.

Rovit, Earl. Ernest Hemingway. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1986. 214 p.

Revision of the 1963 work, part of Twayne's United States Authors Series.

Spilka, Mark. Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990. 383 p.

Analyzes the novel in terms of Hemingway's attempts to come to terms with his own androgynous impulses.

Tyler, Lisa. “Passion and Grief in A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway's Retelling of Wuthering Heights.” Hemingway Review 14 (Spring 1995): 79-86.

Examines ways in which A Farewell to Arms echoes Bronte's novel in themes, symbols, and details.

Wagner, Linda W., Ed. Ernest Hemingway: Six Decades of Criticism. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1987. 341 p.

Selections from Hemingway criticism to the mid-1980s, with an introduction by the editor.

Williams, Wirt. The Tragic Art of Ernest Hemingway. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1981. 240 p.

Author defines tragedy and applies its parameters to various Hemingway works, including A Farewell to Arms.

Additional coverage of Hemingway's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 19; Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 2; Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults, Vols. 2, 3, and 13; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1917–1929; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 77–80; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 34; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 4, 9, 102, and 210; Dictionary of Literary Biography Documentary Series, Vols. 1, 15, and 16; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1981, 1987, 1996, and 1998; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors: British; DISCovering Authors: Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors, Novelists; DISCovering Authors 3.0; Exploring Novels; Exploring Short Stories; Literature and Its Times, Vols. 3 and 4; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Editions 1 and 2; Novels for Students, Vols. 1, 5, and 6; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 1, 25, 36, and 40; Short Stories for Students, Vols. 1, 6, 8, 9, and 11; and World Literature Criticism.