Hemingway and Women at the Front

Blowing Bridges in The Fifth Column, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Other Works

Authors

  • Kim Moreland George Washington University Author

Keywords:

Ernest Hemingway, women and war roles, love versus war, gender and conflict, A Farewell to Arms, The Fifth Column, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Spanish Civil War

Abstract

An exploration of Hemingway’s interest in the topic of love and war in a number of his important works.

Author Biography

  • Kim Moreland, George Washington University

    Kim Moreland is Professor of English at George Washington University. She has published numerous articles, most often on Hemingway and Fitzgerald, in various journals and edited volumes, and she has reviewed more than two dozen books on a wide variety of American literary figures and movements. She is author of The Medievalist Impulse in American Literature: Twain, Adams, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway (1996). A frequent presenter at national and international conferences, she most recently accepted invitations to be a guest speaker on Steinbeck, Gellhorn, and Hemingway, respectively. Her essay, “The Inevitable Failure of Steinbeck’s Necessary Quest: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights,” is forthcoming in the Steinbeck Review.

Published

2026-06-16