Book News: New trends in Hemingway studies

 The New Hemingway Studies

EDITED BY SUZANNE DEL GIZZO AND KIRK CURNUTT

Cambridge UP, September 2020

Hardback ISBN: 9781108494847

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/american-literature/new-hemingway-studies?format=HB

The subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive stylist of twentieth-century literature and a case study in what happens to an artist consumed by the spectacle of celebrity. The New Hemingway Studies examines how two decades of new-millennium scholarship confirm his continued relevance to an era that, on the surface, appears so distinct from his—one defined by digital realms, ecological anxiety, and globalization. It explores the various sources (print, archival, digital, and other) through which critics access Hemingway. Highlighting the latest critical trends, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how Hemingway's remarkably durable stories, novels, and essays have served as a lens for understanding preeminent concerns in our own time, including paranoia, trauma, iconicity, and racial, sexual, and national identities.

• Provides an overview of recent scholarly trends in Hemingway studies
• Re-imagines Hemingway studies in new contexts
• Demonstrates gaps in current scholarship and adumbrates possible paths for future inquiry

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Contributors

Suzanne del Gizzo, Kirk Curnutt, Robert W. Trogdon, Sandra Spanier, Verna Kale, Krista Quesenberry, Laura Godfrey, David Wyatt, Sarah Anderson Wood, Debra A. Moddelmog, Ian Marshall, Loren Glass, Lisa Tyler, Marc K. Dudley, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, Kevin R. West

Suzanne del Gizzo, Chestnut College, is editor of The Hemingway Review.  She has published over twenty articles in scholarly journals and has co-edited two books, Ernest Hemingway in Context with Debra A. Moddelmog and Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden:  25 Years of Criticism with Frederic J. Svoboda.

Kirk Curnutt, Troy University, Alabama, is the author of several volumes of literary criticism and fiction, including, most recently, the edited-volume American Literature in Transition: 1970-1980, the pocket biography William Faulkner, and The 100 Greatest Literary Characters, co-authored with James Plath and Gail Sinclair.