Stephen Gilbert Brown is Professor of English and Barrick Scholar of Modern Comparative Literature at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA, where he teaches courses in Hemingway, Joyce and Proust. He is the author of The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (2004); Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/ Radical Praxis (2011) and the award-winning Words in the Wilderness (2000).

¿Part I The Love Chase

1 Introduction: Entering the Garden-The Genealogy of a Reading

2 Eden and Its Discontents

3 The Mother of Invention: The Birth of the Twin

4 Sisters of the Forest

5 The Forest of Four Wounds: Hemingway and the Sawyer's Daughter

6 As One Animal of the Forest: "The Last Good Country" of Sibling Eros

Part II The Blood Chase

7 The Father of the Forest: Identity Formation and Hemingway's Naturalist Calling

8 An Uncanny Genealogy: Agassiz, Roosevelt, and Pound

9 A Father's Fall from Grace

10 The Rise of the Old Brute

11 The Tabula Fabulas: Re-Reading Hemingway's First Narratives