'Hemingway'

 

I have chosen to use Google Ngram to analyse the keyword 'Hemingway.' The graph shows that, initially, Hemingway is consistently unused in texts throughout the 1800s - in fact, it is only in the early 1920s that 'Hemingway' starts to become a recognised keyword, including a very noticeable increase in 1923. This makes logical sense as Hemingway’s first book 'Three Novels and Ten Poems' was published in 1923; after which he enjoyed success with several stories and novels throughout the 20s and onwards. Arguably his most popular novel of all was 'A Farewell to Arms', which was published in 1929. Again, the graph shows a slight rise after its publication; while the events in 1929 in 'That Summer in Paris' can be placed as happening shortly before, when Scott Fitzgerald shows Morley a manuscript of 'A Farewell to Arms' as the two discuss Ernest's style of writing in detail.

 

There is a noticable rise in 1954 (when Hemingway won the Nobel Prize). After Hemingway’s death in 1961,  the line continues to rise for several decades; not unusual, perhaps, that a person becomes even more  popular after their death – but I would owe the majority of his continued success to republished editions of his novels and the fact that Hemingway became a model for writers and many universities, meaning that literary criticisms of his books were also written and widely used.