Title
Hemingway’s Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory
Document Type
Book
Annotation
Provides a close literary reading of Hemingway’s geographical aesthetic in his fiction and nonfiction, examining how characters become part of their physical worlds. Godfrey draws on cultural history and humanist geography in her exploration of the author’s imaginative construction of the intimate and interdependent relationship between characters and their environments, revealing how they influence each other. Godfrey concludes: “Hemingway’s literary geographies are consistently natural, historical, personal, and cultural; they show Hemingway’s interest in and value for the life-in-places in all its forms.” Texts examined include “Summer People,” In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Date
2016
Citation
Godfrey, Laura Gruber. Hemingway’s Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.