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Article: Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.(Book review)
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- Journal of the History of Sexuality
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism. By RICHARD FANTINA. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 224. $69.95 (cloth).
Masculinity has arguably always been the central feature of scholarship on Ernest Hemingway; one need only think of the masculine qualities credited to that earliest and most enduring of critical responses to Hemingway's work: the isolated, stoic, brave Hemingway "code hero," who must perform gracefully under pressure. Since the 1990s, with the publication of studies like Mark Spilka's Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny, critical discussions of Hemingway's masculinity have become increasingly complex and often contradictory, in part because ...