Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict

By Michelle E. Moore and Professor Michelle E. Moore

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350018031
• ISBN13: 9781350018037
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"