Title
Ernest Hemingway
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Overview of Hemingway’s life and writing, addressing his ultra-masculine persona and treatment of gender and race in his major works. Discusses the influence of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein on Hemingway’s innovative style and concludes with an examination of his relationship with the unspoiled America of his youth, later transnational experiences, and the writings associated with these geographical areas. Messent suggests that Hemingway’s travels were motivated by a desire for refuge from the “global contamination” of modernization and its effects, casting the author as an important figure in contemporary transnational literary studies.
Published in
A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction
Date
2010
Pages
240-250
COinS
Citation
Messent, Peter. “Ernest Hemingway.” In A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction, edited by David Seed, 240-50. Chichester, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.