The Cambridge Companion to Hemingway

A comprehensive introduction to Hemingway and his works.

Scott Donaldson (Edited by)

9780521455749, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 January 1996

336 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

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 analysing his major texts, the contributors provide insights 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. Contributors include both distinguished established figures and brilliant newcomers, all chosen with regard to the clarity and readability of their prose.

1. Introduction: Hemingway and fame Scott Donaldson
2. Hemingway's journalism and the realist dilemma Elizabeth Dewberry
3. 1924: Hemingway's luggage and the miraculous year Paul Smith
4. In Our Time, out of season Thomas Strychacz
5. Brett and other women in The Sun Also Rises James Nagel
6. A Farewell to Arms: doctors in the house of love Michael Reynolds
7. Hemingway's late fiction: breaking new ground Robert E. Fleming
8. Hemingway and politics Keneth Kinnamon
9. Hemingway and gender history Rena Sanderson
10. Hemingway, Hadley, and Paris: the persistence of desire J. Gerald Kennedy
11. Hemingway's Spanish sensibility Allen Josephs
12. The Cuban context of The Old Man and the Sea Bickford Sylvester
13. Conclusion: the critical reputation of Ernest Hemingway Susan F. Beegel.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK]