Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

<i>Chicago and the Making of American Modernism</i> 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.