Chicago dreaming
Subtitle: Midwesterners and the city, 1871-1919
By: Timothy B. Spears.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Rural-urban migration -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.; Rural-urban migration -- Middle West -- History.; Whites -- Middle West -- Migrations -- History.; American literature -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 1875-; Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life.
Description: Part I examines the ethos of self-making and boosterism that has defined the city since its settlement in the 1830s, and argues that these energies formed the context for hinterland migration during the nineteenth century and beyond. Part 2 highlights the emotional and cultural foraces that continued to tie many migrants to the hinterland even after their arrival in Chicago. Part 3 looks at Chicago's ethnic communities through the eyes of hinterland migrants, underscoring the cultural authority of these native-born newcomers in mediating the assimilation of foreign immigrants. Chapter 6 focuses on the work of Jane Addams and Chapter 7 considers how Chicago's multiethnic community is portrayed in Edith Wyatt's and Elia Peattie's fiction and in Carl Sandburg's poetry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-307) and index.