Chicago and the making of American modernism : Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in conflict

Author(s)

• Moore, Michelle E.

Bibliographic Information

Chicago and the making of American modernism : Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in conflict

Michelle E. Moore

（Historicizing modernism）

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-235) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: 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 Verdict in Context 3. Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson and Chicago Edgar Lee Masters' Critique of Chicago Sherwood Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Craftsman Ideal Part 2: 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 Works Cited Index

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Details

• NCID: BB27963761
• ISBN:
  • 9781350018037
• LCCN: 2018023582
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 247 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS228.M63
  • DC23 : 810.9/112
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Modernism (Literature) -- United States
  • LCSH : Literature and society -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • LCSH : Chicago (Ill.) -- In literature
  • LCSH : Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB05447860