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

Author:   Professor Michelle E. Moore (College of DuPage, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350018037


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict


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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.

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Author:   Professor Michelle E. Moore (College of DuPage, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781350018037


ISBN 10:   1350018031
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   13 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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 Works Cited Index

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The reader emerges with new insight into the importance of Chicago in the minds of American modernists, while Moore’s shrewd close readings and archival research refresh ideas about classic texts ... Her book will be valuable to many fields of study * Modern Language Review * Moore’s consideration of Faulkner and Fitzgerald is valuable, adding new connections between these important modernist writers and Chicago ... One strength of Moore’s work is the use of archival material as evidence of attitudes toward Chicago. * Midwest Modern Language Association * Michelle E. Moore’s clear-eyed and engaging study helps us better understand just how much of a modernist Hemingway was by taking us back to the root of that development. Moore’s commitment to her subject matter, and the narratives she is able to build from her research, further validates Hemingway’s role as an essential American modernist who came of age as a writer not only in Paris, but in the “Wild West” of Chicago, Illinois. * The Hemingway Review * Impressive primary source research…Throughout, Moore’s precise attention to historical detail allows her to construct well-rounded portraits of the people behind the fictional Chicago types that populate Fitzgerald’s stories, and she convincingly demonstrates how knowing more about the real backgrounds of these people enriches our understanding of Fitzgerald’s thematic concerns, especially with respect to labor relations and workers’ rights. All in all, in the Fitzgerald chapter, just as with the rest of this remarkable book, Moore offers important contributions to scholarship by highlighting the significance of Chicago-related linkages that without her careful explications readers might otherwise miss. * The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review *


Impressive primary source research...Throughout, Moore's precise attention to historical detail allows her to construct well-rounded portraits of the people behind the fictional Chicago types that populate Fitzgerald's stories, and she convincingly demonstrates how knowing more about the real backgrounds of these people enriches our understanding of Fitzgerald's thematic concerns, especially with respect to labor relations and workers' rights. All in all, in the Fitzgerald chapter, just as with the rest of this remarkable book, Moore offers important contributions to scholarship by highlighting the significance of Chicago-related linkages that without her careful explications readers might otherwise miss. * The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review *


Author Information

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.

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