Ernest Hemingway in Context

Ernest Hemingway''s literary career was shaped by the remarkable contexts in which he lived from the streets of suburban Chicago to the shores of the Caribbean islands to the battlefields of WWI Franco''s Spain and WWII. This volume examines the various geographic political social and literary contexts through which Hemingway crystallized his unmistakable narrative voice. Written by forty-three experts in Hemingway studies the comprehensive yet concise essays collected here explore how Hemingway is both a product and a critic of his times touching on his relationship to matters of style biography letters cinema the arts music masculinity sexuality the environment ethnicity and race legacy and women. Fans students and scholars of Hemingway will turn to this reference time and again for a fuller understanding of this iconic American author.