The Elements of Style: Aspiration and the Writing Life in the Early Years of Esquire

Journal article

Stephen J. Mexal

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol.14(1), pp.1-23

2023

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Title: The Elements of Style: Aspiration and the Writing Life in the Early Years of Esquire
Author/Creator: Stephen J. Mexal
Publication Details: Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, Vol.14(1), pp.1-23
Annotation: Details the founding of the male-oriented Esquire magazine, including editor Arnold Gingrich's landing of Hemingway as a featured contributor who would help establish its literary and aspirational credentials. "In Esquire," Mexal writes, "reading literary fiction, aspiring to literary authorship, and becoming an educated consumer are intertwined acts of imaginative aspiration, a kind of self-narration in which the writer-consumer becomes the author of his own story." Hemingway, he argues, helped create Esquire's image of an ideal manhood dominated by writing, travel, and material and sensual comforts.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015213187203691