Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

- Authors
- Moore, Michelle E.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- ISBN
- 9781350018044
- Date
- 2018-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.62 MB
- Lang
- en
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America's great modernist writers and the nation's "second city." Michelle E. Moore explores the ways in which the defining writers of the era-Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald-engaged with the city and reacted against the commercial styles of "Chicago realism" to pursue their own, European-influenced mode of modernist art. Drawing on local archives to illuminate the literary culture of early 20th-century Chicago, this book reveals an important new dimension to the rise of American modernism.