Ernest Hemingway, The Torrents of Spring

Robert E. Fleming (University of New Mexico)

Ed. by Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

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First circulation or publication 1926

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The Torrents of Spring

(1926) was Ernest Hemingway's first novel. A slim volume, it was published by Scribner's after being rejected by Hemingway's first US publisher, Boni and Liveright. As Henry Fielding had parodied Samuel Richardson's

Pamela

(1740) with his own

Joseph Andrews

(1742), Hemingway parodied his friend Sherwood Anderson's most recent novel,

Dark Laughter

(1925). Since Anderson was one of the most popular novelists under contract with Boni and Liveright, that publisher understandably chose not to publish the parody.

Although he claimed that he had written the parody for Anderson's own good and for the good of American literature, Hemingway had been disturbed by reviewers' suggestions that he had learned some of his craft from Anderson, and The Torrents of Spring was on one

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "The Torrents of Spring". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 March 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7947, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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