Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism is the first collection that examines the connections linking two major American writers of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway. In twelve critical essays, along with a foreword and an introduction, scholars from both camps explore the authors’ overlapping interests, contexts, and aesthetic techniques. Thematic sections highlight components in each author's works that reveal their shared association with major trends in literary modernism, focusing on stylistic and formal experimentation, the Great War, European culture (including the expatriate movement), gender roles, technological advancements, and intertextualities between literature and popular texts. Together, the essays prove that comparative studies of Wharton and Hemingway open new avenues for understanding the broader aesthetic and cultural movements central to the development of American literary modernism in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Contributors include Parley Ann Boswell, Dustin Faulstick, Anna Green, Peter Hays, Jennifer Haytock, Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, Ellen Andrews Knodt, Cecilia Macheski, Milena Radeva-Costello, Laura Rattray, Sirpa Salenius, Lisa Tyler, and Linda Wagner-Martin.
. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés."Throughout much of the twentieth century, Edith Wharton was usually understood as a disciple of Henry James. In this collection, Lisa Tyler and her essayists challenge readers to view Wharton as an early literary modernist partner to Ernest Hemingway, America’s iconic literary modernist. Twelve essays provide a rich, sometimes surprising, mix, linking the two writers biographically and thematically, and even playfully in the concluding essays. Finishing the book, readers will find pairing Wharton and Hemingway as natural as pairing Fitzgerald and Hemingway." —Joseph M. Flora, president, Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society
"That Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway are two writers we don't readily think of in the same breath says a lot about the intractable ways we segregate our artists, whether by gender, generation, or genre. Lisa Tyler's wonderful collection demonstrates the intellectual enthusiasm, the rush, that comes when we break down those boundaries. Across a dozen essays, Tyler's all-star team of scholars foregrounds the many fascinating intersections between two famous figures stereotyped at opposite extremes by their own iconicity: Wharton the exacting aristocrat, archly principled in the Victorian layers she criticized as shackles, Hemingway the blustery adventurer, the no-nonsense minimalist whose hair-on-the-chest bluntness hid a deep vein of sentimentality and nostalgia. Between these poles, however, are overlapping nuances arising from a mutual attraction to the book of Ecclesiastes, a shared publisher, their grappling with the Great War, and an intrigue with the literary stylization of crime we would eventually know as noir. After this collection, we'll never again think of setting Ethan Frome and The Sun Also Rises at far ends of our bookshelves." —Kirk Curnutt, author of Reading Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not"
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