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Author:   Keith Gandal (Professor of English, Professor of English, Northern Illinois University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780199744572

ISBN 10:   0199744572
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   29 July 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Part I Introduction 1. Rethinking Post-World War I Classics: Recovering the Historical Context of the Mobilization 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 Mobilization Novel Afterword: Here We Go Again: World War II Mobilization Blues in William Burroughs's Junky Notes Index"

Reviews

<br> An innovative study. --Choice <br> To our significant if doomed scholarly efforts to unknot the complex tangle of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and war, we have new help in the form of Keith Gandal's The Gun and the Pen. --The Hemingway Review<br> Gandal provides a radically new and convincing critique . . . I highly recommend The Gun and the Pen to students of history and literature alike as a superb example of what a multidisciplinary study can accomplish. -The Journal of Military History <br> Gandal is the first person to see the relevance of the experience of mobilization to American fiction and he has--with great brilliance as well as originality--demonstrated exactly the kind of difference it made to some of the central texts of the 20s and beyond. The Gun and the Pen will make an important difference to our understanding of American modernism. --Walter Benn Michaels, University of Illinois at Chicago<br> With highly original and insightful readings of threea

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Keith Gandal is Professor of English at City College of New York. He is the author of The Virtues of the Vicious: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane and the Spectacle of the Slum and Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film.

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