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

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.>

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• Authors: Michelle E Moore, Michelle E. Moore, Michelle E. (College of Dupage Moore, Professor Michelle E. Moore, Moore Michelle E
• Assisted by: Matthew Feldman (Editor), Erik Tonning (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781350018037
• ISBN: 978-1-350-01803-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Historicizing Modernism; Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form