Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his
prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature
and why scholarly reputations rise and fall. Hemingway burst on the
literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories
and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern
writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like
the stoic,macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the
1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea
in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his
popularity waxed and waned during his lifetime, Hemingway's
reputation among scholars remained strong as long as traditional
scholarship dominated. New approaches beginning in the 1960s
brought a sea change, however, finding grave fault with his work
and making him a figure ripe for vilification. Yet during this time
scholarship on him continued to appear. His works still sell well,
and several are staples on high-school and college syllabi. A new
scholarly edition of his letters is drawing prominent attention,
and there is a resurgence in scholarly attention to - and
approbation for - his work. Tracing Hemingway's critical fortunes
tells us something about what we value in literature and why
reputations rise and fall as scholars find new ways to examine and
interpret creative work. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus
of Alvernia University. Among other books, he has written volumes
on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, Updike,and Matthew Arnold for Camden
House's Literary Criticism in Perspective series.
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