The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

This Companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader, and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analyzing his major texts, these chapters provide insight on Hemingway's relationship with gender history, journalism, fame, and the political climate of the 1930s. Contributors include both the most distinguished established figures and brilliant newcomers, all chosen with regard to the clarity and readability of their prose. Contents......Page 8 List of Contributors......Page 10 Chronology......Page 12 1 Introduction: Hemingway and fame......Page 16 2 Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma......Page 31 3 1924: Hemingway's luggage and the miraculous year......Page 51 4 In Our Time, out of season......Page 70 5 Brett and the other women in The Sun Also Rises......Page 102 6 A Farewell to Arms: Doctors in the house of love......Page 124 7 Hemingway's late fiction: Breaking new ground......Page 143 8 Hemingway and politics......Page 164 9 Hemingway and gender history......Page 185 10 Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris: The persistence of desire......Page 212 11 Hemingway's Spanish sensibility......Page 236 12 The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea......Page 258 13 Conclusion: The critical reputation of Ernest Hemingway......Page 284 Selected Bibliography......Page 316 Index......Page 326 Cambridge University Press Contents 8 List of Contributors 10 Chronology 12 1 Introduction: Hemingway and fame 16 2 Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma 31 3 1924: Hemingway's luggage and the miraculous year 51 4 In Our Time, out of season 70 5 Brett and the other women in The Sun Also Rises 102 6 A Farewell to Arms: Doctors in the house of love 124 7 Hemingway's late fiction: Breaking new ground 143 8 Hemingway and politics 164 9 Hemingway and gender history 185 10 Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris: The persistence of desire 212 11 Hemingway's Spanish sensibility 236 12 The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea 258 13 Conclusion: The critical reputation of Ernest Hemingway 284 Selected Bibliography 316 Index 326 9780521455749 "This companion serves both as an introduction for the interested reader and as a source of the best recent scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analyzing his major texts, these chapters provide insight into Hemingway's relationship with gender history, journalism, fame, and the political climate of the 1930s. The essays are framed by an introductory chapter on Hemingway and the costs of fame and an invaluable conclusion providing an overview of Hemingway scholarship from its beginnings to the present. Students will find the selected bibliography a useful guide to future research."--Jacket This companion serves both as an introduction for interested readers of Hemingway and as a source for outstanding new scholarship on the author and his works. In addition to analyzing his major texts, the essays collected here provide insight on Hemingway's relationship with issues of gender history, journalism, fame, and the political climate of the 1930s. Students will find the selected bibliography a useful guide to future research.

a Comprehensive Introduction To Hemingway And His Works.