Title
Fishing with John Burroughs and Ernest Hemingway: "Mere Wormers"? "Trout-Hogs"? or "Aficionados with a Code?"
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Objecting to previous readings of naturalist writer John Burroughs’s and Hemingway’s fishermen as amoral sportsmen, Stoneback focuses on Burroughs’s essays and the fishing scene in The Sun Also Rises to prove that their untraditional fishing is, in fact, disciplined and passionate.
Published in
Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature
Volume
9
Issue
2
Date
Spring 1992
Pages
53-65
COinS
Citation
Stoneback, H. R. “Fishing with John Burroughs and Ernest Hemingway: ‘Mere Wormers’? ‘Trout-Hogs’? or Aficionados with a Code?’” Aethlon: Journal of Sports Literature 9, no. 2 (Spring 1992): 53-65.