Overview

The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life—especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpected source: Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s ecological perspective is often overlooked in his work. This book expands on emerging scholarship, exploring Hemingway’s non-anthropocentric view of non-human entities to offer fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in his long-length fiction such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea and The Garden of Eden, as well as short stories like The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Big Two-Hearted River and A Natural History of the Dead. Through a multidisciplinary lens—including material ecocriticism, eco-gothic, posthumanism, light/colour ecology, olfactory discourse, environmental history, and cultural ecology—Ng challenges the notion of Hemingway as merely a hyper-masculine figure. Instead, she reveals his texts as ""ecological forces"" that can heighten our awareness of nonhuman agency, leading us to understand our own place in this interconnected world. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective

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Author:   Lay Sion Ng (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.80cm
Weight:   1.060kg
ISBN:  

9781350469303

ISBN 10:   1350469300
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Re-reading Hemingway in the Anthropocene Part I: Earth Chapter 2. The “Rotten” Food, Bodies, Landscapes, and Rain in A Farewell to Arms Chapter 3. The “Roaring” Earth and Soil Ethics in For Whom the Bell Tolls Part II: Air Chapter 4. The Ecology of Color in The Old Man and the Sea Chapter 5. Olfactory Transcorporeality and Nasal Ethics in For Whom the Bell Tolls and other works Part III: Water Chapter 6. The Politics of Cure in The Sun Also Rises Chapter 7. The Ecology of Death in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” and “A Natural History of the Dead” Part IV: Fire Chapter 8. Post-traumatic Survival and More-Than-Human Encounters in “Big Two-Hearted River” Chapter 9. The Elephant’s Eye and the Maji-Maji War in The Garden of Eden Chapter 10. Hemingway and Cultural Ecology Postscript Bibliography

Reviews

This book provides a thorough and persuasive reappraisal of an author neglected by ecocritics, reassessing an important and popular oeuvre of 20th century literature along original lines of enquiry. -- Terry Gifford, Visiting Research Fellow, Bath Spa University, UK

Author Information

Lay Sion Ng is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the English Literature Department at Sophia University, Japan.

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