The Sun Also Rises

Abstract

although hemingway’s work has begun to attract the attention of ecocritics, the most widely taught and frequently analyzed work of the entire Hemingway canon, the 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, has yet to receive detailed ecocritical analysis.1 What little attention the book has attracted has been dismissive. Glen A. Love, a founding member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and a pioneer in environmentally-concerned criticism, presents the novel as a test case of the narrowly anthropocentric vision of much literary scholarship. Love says,