Chicago and the Making of American Modernism
Subtitle: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350018037
Subjects: Modernism (literature); Literature and society; Chicago (ill.), in literature; Chicago (ill.), social life and customs
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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.