Hemingway’s Geographies

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.