Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Ernest Hemingway / Eugene Goodheart -- Biography of Ernest Hemingway / R. Baird Shuman -- The Paris review perspective / Petrina Crockford -- Ernest Hemingway: a cultural and historical context / Jennifer Banach Palladino -- In his time (and later): Ernest Hemingway's critical reputation / Robert C. Evans -- Toward a definition of the Hemingwayesque and the Faulknerian / Matthew J. Bolton -- The first forty-five stories / Carlos Baker -- The personal stories: Paris and Provence, 1926-1927 / Hilary K. Justice -- Recurrence in Hemingway and C�ezanne / Ron Berman -- The scapegoat, the bankrupt, and the bullfighter: shadows of a lost man in The sun also rises / Neil Heims -- "Sign the wire with love": the morality of surplus in The sun also rises / George Cheatham -- Frederic Henry's escape and the pose of passivity / Scott Donaldson -- Three wounded warriors / Mark Spilka -- Invalid masculinity: silence, hospitals, and the anesthesia in A farewell to arms / Diane Price Herndl -- "Everything completely knit up": seeing For whom the bell tolls whole / A. Robert Lee -- Cultural imperialism, Afro-Cuban religion, and Santiago's failure in Hemingway's The old man and the sea / Philip Melling -- The importance of being Ernest / Louise A. Renza.