“The Gallantry of the Aging Machine”: Ernest Hemingway’s Colonel Cantwell and Masculine Aging in Modernist Literature
Age, like race and gender, is a socially constructed category, and in the 20th century, American society constructed aging as a process of inevitable natural decline, typically from age fifty or so. In Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel Across the River and into the Trees, the semi-autobiographical prota...
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Polish Association for the Study of English
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Polish Journal of English Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/PJES_9-2_5_Tyler.pdf |