Ernest Hemingway: The Modern Transcendentalist

Authors

Camryn Scott, Brigham Young University - ProvoFollow

Keywords

Transcendentalism, Hemingway, American Literature

Abstract

When thinking about Transcendentalism, most of us look solely to the 19^th Century writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In this paper I reject this static treatment of the movement by exploring Ernest Hemingway’s connection to nature both in his life and in his writings, and claim that he created a modern version of Transcendentalism in the early 20^th Century.

Issue and Volume

Winter/Spring 2016 Issue

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Scott, Camryn (2016) "Ernest Hemingway: The Modern Transcendentalist," Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism: Vol. 9: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/vol9/iss1/8