Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life

by Linda Wagner-Martin

Overview

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readings—particularly of the way Hemingway’s unpublished stories (“Phillip Haines was a writer”) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingway’s treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene there—putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway’s edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway’s wives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030862541
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/09/2022
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2021
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has written and edited more than eighty books, has won a number of teaching awards, and such grants as the Guggenheim, the Senior National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Ford, and Rockefeller—and been a fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature. In the Palgrave Macmillan Literary Lives series, she has published works on Emily Dickinson (2013), Sylvia Plath (2003), Toni Morrison (second edition, 2022), John Steinbeck (2017), and Walt Whitman (2021).

Read an Excerpt

  “Too many families and schools discourage creativity. I left home because I was determined to do what I wanted to do.”
       ------- Edward Albee, Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright
 
“It’s my belief that an artist should give people new glasses and a new cubistic approach to looking at themselves.”
       ---------- Julie Taymor, Theater and Film Director
 
“I’m always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.”
       ---------- James Rosenquist, Artist
 
“I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
       --------- Daniel Libeskind, Architect
 
“If you think “I want to be famous,” or “I want to make a lot of money,” my sense is that you don’t go into most creative jobs.”
       -------- David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-wiining author
 
“The motivation for creativity is most often the need to express your ideas to other people.”
       -------- Spike Lee, Film Director
 
“We knew we had something so huge that Steve (Jobs) and I couldn’t do it by ourselves.”
       -------- Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple Computer
 
“I have always felt that, for me, creativity was really using excess energy.”
        --------Dale Chihuly, Renowned Glass Sculptor
 
“People get enraged at me because they think women should not write about the things I write about, because the things that I write about, in some way, break with their notion of what a woman should be.”
       --------- Erica Jong, Best-selling Author
 
“There’s a conflict between professionalism that calls for minimizing risk, while creativity encourages risk.”
       ---------- Milton Glaser, Designer 

Table of Contents

1. “‘Fraid a Nothing”.- 2. Eighteen and Fear: And Agnes.- 3. “Dear Ernesto”.- 4. The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival.- 5. Of Babies and Books.- 6. Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.- 7. Marriage in the Midst of Men Without Women.- 8. A Farewell to Arms.- 9. The Bullfight as Center.- 10. Hemingway as the Man in Charge.- 11. Esquire and Africa.- 12. Hemingway in the World.- 13. Martha Gellhorn and Spain.- 14. War in Europe and at Home.- 15. The Fourth Mrs. Hemingway.- 16. From Cuba to Italy.- 17. Old Men, Prizes, and Reports of Hemingway’s Death.- 18. A Moveable Feast in Retrospect.- 19. Islands in the Stream in Retrospect.- 20. The Garden of Eden in Retrospect.- 21. Endings.