ALL MAN!: HEMINGWAY, 1950s MEN'S MAGAZINES, AND THE MASCULINE PERSONA

Abstract

Whereas Raeburn focuses on Hemingway's ubiquity between 1930 and i960 in the pages and on the covers of such "respectable" periodicals as Esquire, Time, Life, Collier's, the Atlantic, Look, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, the Saturday Evening Post, and the New Yorker (not to mention such popular sporting magazines as Field and Stream, Sports Illustrated, Fisherman, and Popular Boating), Earle explores Hemingway's similar ubiquity in 1950s men's pulp magazines - a class of periodical once read by millions, but now so denigrated (and uncatalogued) that few have bothered to study them. [...] this would never have happened had not Hemingway laid the groundwork for it in his non-fiction writing of the 1930s and '40s - his Esquire letters, NANA dispatches, and Colliers journalism, as well as Death in the Afternoon, Green Hills of Africa, and his preface to Men at War - not to mention his very public responses to what he regarded as imputations against his masculinity by Gertrude Stein and Max Eastman.