This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway's literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.

First book-length work to detail Ernest Hemingway's sense of geography in its entirety Provides a valuable contribution to the discussion and increased interest in Hemingway and the natural world, as demonstrated at the most recent International Hemingway Society conference Contributes to the field of narratology through an investigation of the ways in which the success and complexity of Hemingway's writing depends on uniquely literary constructions of geography.

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Laura Gruber Godfrey is Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at North Idaho College, USA. She has published widely on American literature and on Hemingway in journals such as Western American Literature , Arizona Quarterly , Critique , and The Hemingway Review as well as in the edited collections Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism , Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory , and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World .

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This book combines close literary analysis with recent research on culture and the spaces humans inhabit. By examining a wide range of Hemingway's writing, including excerpts from his letters; short stories such as Big Two-Hearted River and On the Quai at Smyrna; the posthumously-published The Last Good Country and A Moveable Feast ; and the novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms , Laura Gruber Godfrey shows how characters' immersions in place are essential to Hemingway's fiction. Revising conventional views of Hemingway's various landscapes as literary symbols or external settings for action, Godfrey shows that, for Hemingway, humans and geography are often coextensive and interdependent.

Inhalt
Introduction: Ernest Hemingway's Intimate Geographies.- Hemingway, the Preservation Impulse, and Cultural Geography.- The Illusion of Remembered Places.- The Radiance of Objects in Place.- Negotiating the Terrain of Conflict.- Afterword.- Works Cited.