Trauma Studies: Neurological and Corporeal Injuries

Chronicles the evolution of biographical analyses of Hemingway\u27s health matters in light of recent discoveries of brain science and the rise of scholarly trauma studies. Highlights such works as Andrew Farah\u27s Hemingway\u27s Brain in discussing the former and Linda Wagner-Martin\u27s Hemingway\u27s Wars as a standard-setter of the latter. Discusses evidence and competing theories of mental illness and alcoholism and suggests that both Farah and Wagner-Martin opened doors toward further studies of Hemingway\u27s troubles in relation to his behaviors and his works, especially those composed in the last decade of his life and published posthumously. Locates another thread to follow in the field of epigenetics, which studies biological inheritance and may yet shed light on the effect of trauma, depression, and other traits that beset Hemingway and his family