Fetch Chicago And The Making Of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, And Fitzgerald In Conflict Compiled By Michelle E. Moore Presented As Copy

The open disclosure is that I know the author, a friend from graduate school from whom I've stolen okay, borrowed many an insight.
This book taught me entirely new things about a number of authors whom I thought I already know well.
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is the first fulllength 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 eraWilla Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F.
Scott Fitzgeraldengaged with the city and reacted against the commercial styles of "Chicago realism" to pursue their own, Europeaninfluenced mode of modernist art.
Drawing on local archives to illuminate the literary culture of earlythcentury Chicago, this book reveals an important new dimension to the rise of American modernism.
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