Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

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 "Chic...