Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict

Professor Michelle E. Moore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17101-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Michelle E. Moore, Ph.D. is Professor of English at the College of Dupage, where she teaches classes in American literature and film. She has published articles in Literature/Film Quarterly, Cather Studies 9 and 11, and Faulkner Studies, and given numerous presentations on American modernism at Modern Language Association conventions and at Modernist Studies Association conferences. She is a member of the Willa Cather Foundation, The Hemingway Society, The Faulkner Society, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and gives papers regularly at their seminars and conferences.

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

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Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	Historicizing Modernism
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	372 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-17101-8 / 1350171018
ISBN-13	978-1-350-17101-5 / 9781350171015
Zustand	Neuware