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Article: A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway.(Review)
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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A Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway. Edited by Linda Wagner-Martin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 237pp. + index. Cloth $35. Paper $15.95.
Unlike his contemporaries F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway managed to maintain a literary dominance that continued steadily during his life and has wavered only slightly in the years since his death in 1961. Although among university literature professors Hemingway lost ground to William Faulkner at mid-century (from the 1940s into the 1960s), his fiction remained popular with the public and exerted a profound influence on writers. Literary criticism that focuses sharply on Hemingway's ...