Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions

by Miriam B. Mandel

Overview

Encyclopedic and lively, this book illuminates the basic facts associated with the more than 2,500 fictional and historical people, animals, events and cultural artifacts which appear in Hemingway's nine novels.

Hemingway advertised himself as an authority on sport and war, but his interests were much broader. He studied the literary, political, and popular cultures of the many countries he lived in (Cuba, France, United States) and visited regularly (Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, eastern Africa). His novels reveal his erudition: They are studded with often arcane references to art, history, literature, music, religion, medicine, weapons, travel, and contemporary events. Mandel's encyclopedic Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions identifies this network of allusions and retrieves these unwritten contexts.

Includes illustrations, endnotes, a comprehensive bibliography, and index. A useful complement to the many biographical and critical efforts to unravel Hemingway's novels, this volume will encourage informed classroom discussion and enhance scholarly debate. Paperback edition available 2001. Cloth edition previously published in 1995.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810839885
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Pages:	609
Product dimensions:	5.34(w) x 8.46(h) x 1.61(d)

About the Author

Miriam B. Mandel, former Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Literatures of Tel Aviv University, has published articles on Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others. Her books include Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon: The Complete Annotations (2002), and its companion volume, Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations (2008), both published by Scarecrow.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	vii
	Acknowledgments	ix
	User's Guide	1
	Introduction	6
I	The Torrents of Spring	11
II	The Sun Also Rises	57
III	A Farewell to Arms	115
IV	To Have and Have Not	165
V	For Whom the Bell Tolls	199
VI	Across the River and Into the Trees	283
VII	The Old Man and the Sea	347
VIII	Islands in the Stream	365
IX	The Garden of Eden	443
	Endnotes	471
	Works Consulted	536
	Index	565
	About the Author	593

Editorial Reviews

Certainly, this is a most useful work for any reader who wants some of the more elliptical references in Hemingway explicated.

Aumla

...encyclopedic and readable...this guide's most impressive feature is its comprehensiveness. The author has drawn on a vast and diverse array of sources.

American Reference Books Annual

Mandel's text is encyclopedic in scope and in material, providing a long-needed guide to the contextual and cultural references in all [Hemingway's] novels...making this one of the most helpful resources in Hemingway studies, perhaps one of the most thorough and effective guides to the socio-cultural and historical references and allusions in modernist fiction...

College Literature

...especially useful for both beginning and experienced readers. Only those readers with total recall will find this book unnecessary.

Journal of Modern Literature

Mandel's work seems to me exemplary. In its measured patience and indefatigable willingness to describe and document the factual details in Hemingway's novels, it is an important scholarly resource.

The Hemingway Review

The entries are objectively, carefully done, and they speak for themselves...this is a useful book, especially for newcomers to Hemingway's work, and it should find a place on library shelves along with other commentaries.

The International Fiction Review

Admirable and indispensable...the service that Mandel has provided for students and researchers—especially in light of the absence of scholarly editions—is immeasurable.

American Literary Scholarship

...encyclopedic and readable...this guide's most impressive feature is its comprehensiveness. The author has drawn on a vast and diverse array of sources.--American Reference Books Annual

The entries are objectively, carefully done, and they speak for themselves...this is a useful book, especially for newcomers to Hemingway's work, and it should find a place on library shelves along with other commentaries.--The International Fiction Review

Admirable and indispensable...the service that Mandel has provided for students and researchers--especially in light of the absence of scholarly editions--is immeasurable.--American Literary Scholarship

From the Publisher

...especially useful for both beginning and experienced readers. Only those readers with total recall will find this book unnecessary.

Journal Of Modern Literature

...encyclopedic and readable...this guide's most impressive feature is its comprehensiveness. The author has drawn on a vast and diverse array of sources.

American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)

A reference guide to facts associated with the more than 2,500 fictional and historical people, animals, events, and cultural artifacts which appear in Hemingway's nine novels. The nine chapters in the reference correspond to Hemingway's nine novels, with entries arranged alphabetically within each chapter. Each chapter also supplies a summary of the setting and entries are cross-referenced. Endnotes provide historical and literary backgrounds and summaries of critical positions. A few b&w illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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