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Index
Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: The Fire, the Columbian Exhibition, and the Boosters
1. Henry Blake Fuller and Chicago
2. Harriet Monroe and Chicago
The Columbian Exhibition, the “Columbian Ode,” and copyright
Worker’s Rights and Arts and Crafts: The lawsuit and verdict in context
3. Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, and Chicago
Edgar Lee Masters’s critique of Chicago
Sherwood Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Craftsman ideal
Part Two: Making Modernism Out of Chicago
4. Willa Cather and Chicago
Elia Peattie and Willa Cather’s embrace of the modern
Willa Cather’s critique of Chicago: The Song of the Lark
Fanny Butcher and the crass commercialism of the book market
5. Ernest Hemingway and Chicago
Oak Park, Chicago, and the idea of the “good businessman”
The business of making good, honest modernism
Making good modernism out of bad business
The bad business of patronage
6. William Faulkner and Chicago
The Mosquitoes, double dealers, and confidence men
Sanctuary, gangsters, and Ulysses
Wild Palms and the historical exchange between Chicago and the South
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Chicago
Ginevra King: True to type
The Medills and the McCormicks: “The Camel’s Back”
Eleanor “Cissy” and Joseph Patterson: “May Day”
Chicago plots: Among the Ash Heaps and the Millionaires
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Imprint
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