Hemingway's Iceberg and the Darwinian "War of Nature"

Journal article

Bert Bender

The Hemingway Review, Vol.43(2), pp.8-30

2024

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Title: Hemingway's Iceberg and the Darwinian "War of Nature"
Author/Creator: Bert Bender
Publication Details: The Hemingway Review, Vol.43(2), pp.8-30
Annotation: Underlying Hemingway's stories is his sense of humanity's place in nature, according to Darwin's theory of natural selection, and far more importantly, according to the theory of sexual selection that Darwin produced in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. Like the many writers who preceded Hemingway in their own studies of Darwin, he questioned the meaning of love, but he also showed how Darwin's "war of nature" underlies his characters' efforts to deal with the two motives of life, hunger and reproduction.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015213298003691