The New Hemingway Studies

This book outlines Hemingway's continued relevance in the twenty-first century, highlighting the latest critical trends in the field.

Suzanne del Gizzo (Edited by), Kirk Curnutt (Edited by)

9781108494847, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 September 2020

318 pages
24 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.61 kg

'Essays are well researched and footnoted, and the volume features a useful works cited and index. This collection points to excellent avenues for continued exploration of Hemingway's influence in the contemporary world.' R. M. Roberts, Choice

The subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive stylist of twentieth-century literature and a case study in what happens to an artist consumed by the spectacle of celebrity. The New Hemingway Studies examines how two decades of new-millennium scholarship confirm his continued relevance to an era that, on the surface, appears so distinct from his—one defined by digital realms, ecological anxiety, and globalization. It explores the various sources (print, archival, digital, and other) through which critics access Hemingway. Highlighting the latest critical trends, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how Hemingway's remarkably durable stories, novels, and essays have served as a lens for understanding preeminent concerns in our own time, including paranoia, trauma, iconicity, and racial, sexual, and national identities.

Contributors
Introduction: Hemingway in the new millennium Suzanne del Gizzo and Kirk Curnutt
Part I. The textual Hemingway: 1. Shaping the life: Hemingway biographies since 2000 Kirk Curnutt
2. Hemingway and textual studies Robert W. Trogdon
3. Correspondence and the everyday Hemingway Sandra Spanier and Verna Kale
4. Object studies and keepsakes, artifacts, and ephemera Krista Quesenberry
5. Digital Hemingway Laura Godfrey
Part II. Identities: 6. Family dynamics and redefinitions of “papa”-hood Suzanne del Gizzo
7. Hemingway and pleasure David Wyatt
8. Trauma studies: neurological and corporeal injuries Sarah Anderson Wood
9. Hemingway and queer studies Debra A. Moddelmog
10. Hemingway, race(ism), and criticism Ian Marshall
11. Still famous after all these years: Ernest Hemingway in the twenty-first century Loren Glass
Part III. Global engagements: 12. “There's no one thing that's true”: Hemingway criticism and the environmental humanities Lisa Tyler
13. New world order, old world ways: Hemingway's colonialism and postcolonialism Marc K. Dudley
14. Post-“american” Hemingway studies: multicultural approaches and redefinitions of expatriation Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera
15. Politics, espionage, and surveillance: Hemingway and the rise of paranoia culture Kevin R. West
Conclusion
Notes.

Subject Areas: Classic fiction [pre c 1945 FC], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]