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Subject(s)

• American literature—Illinois—Chicago—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Arts and society—Illinois—Chicago—History—19th century [Browse]
• Arts and society—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century [Browse]
• Chicago (Ill.)—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]
• History [Browse]

Summary note

This remarkable cultural history celebrates the great Midwestern city of Chicago for its centrality to the modernist movement. Author Liesl Olson traces Chicago's cultural development from the 1893 World's Fair through mid-century, illuminating how Chicago writers revolutionized literary forms during the first half of the twentieth century, a period of sweeping aesthetic transformations all over the world. From Harriet Monroe, Carl Sandburg, and Ernest Hemingway to Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olson's enthralling study bridges the gap between two distinct and equally vital Chicago-based artistic "renaissance" moments: the primarily white renaissance of the early teens, and the creative ferment of Bronzeville. Stories of the famous and iconoclastic are interwoven with accounts of lesser-known yet influential figures in Chicago, many of whom were women. Olson argues for the importance of Chicago's editors, bookstore owners, tastemakers, and ordinary citizens who helped nurture Chicago's unique culture of artistic experimentation.

Notes

Maps on endpapers.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-349) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Interlude : Chicago, October 21, 1892
• chapter 1. Porkpackers and poetry
• From Chicago to Chicago
• La belle jasminatrice
• In a station of the Metro
• A brave little song
• Porkpackers
• Interlude : Ohio and Chicago, 1912
• chapter 2. Stink of Chicago
• Sherwood Anderson at the Armory show
• French and the Arthurs
• Bliss
• Peoria and Paris
• Little children of the arts
• Interlude : Paris, May-June 1929
• chapter 3. Hemingway's readers
• Good ladies
• Naughty people
• Chicago style
• The sun also rises
• Lady Midwest
• Interlude : Chicago, November 7, 1934
• chapter 4. Stein comes to Chicago
• La Stein
• Wives
• Understanding and enjoying
• City of words
• Greatness
• Mortimer and Maude
• Interlude : Chicago, fall 1941
• chapter 5. White city, black metropolis
• A voice like hers
• Without finger bowls
• Open and raw
• I found it fun
• Fair fables
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9780300203684 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
• 0300203683 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2017939706

OCLC

994760924

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