Chicago and the Making of American Modernism Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict
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Biografisk notat
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.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
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
Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response to new documentary sources made available over the last decade.
Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.
Series Editors: Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning
Associate Editor: Natasha Periyan, Lecturer in Literature, King’s College London, UK
Editorial Board:
Professor Chris Ackerley, Department of English, University of Otago, New Zealand;
Professor Ron Bush, St. John’s College, University of Oxford, UK;
Dr Finn Fordham, Department of English, Royal Holloway, UK;
Professor Steven Matthews, Department of English, University of Reading, UK;
Dr Mark Nixon, Department of English, University of Reading, UK;
Professor Janet Wilson, University of Northampton, UK;
Santanu Das, University of Oxford, UK;
Nan Zhang, The University of Hong Kong;
Kevin Andrew Riordan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore