Chicago : a literary history /
"In the opening sentences of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900), eponymous protagonist Caroline Meeber boards the afternoon train from Columbia City, Wisconsin, to Chicago. She is heading for a city whose fame has fascinated her "since infancy." Sixty years before Carrie...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The literary history of Chicago / Frederik Byrn Køhlert
- Part I: The rise of Chicago and the literary west. From prairie to metropolis : Chicago as the American "shock city" / Cbristophe Den Tandt ; Birth, fire, and rebirth : Edward Payson Roe's Barriers burned away and the invention of Chicago literature / Charles Byler ; ''This broad, free inland America of ours" : Hamlin Garland, Chicago, and the literary west / Christine Holbo ; White city : the World's Columbian Exposition in literature / Rebecca S. Graff ; New realities, new realisms : Chicago literature against the genteel tradition / Robert Birdwell
- Part II: Business unusual : a new urban American literature. Among the skyscrapers : Henry B. Fuller's Chicago novels / Joseph A. Dimuro ; The price of success : Robert Herrick's The memoirs of an American citizen and the American business novel / Jose Fernandez ; "A story of Chicago" : the future of place in Frank Norris's The pit†‬/ Jason Puskar ; Amid forces : Theodore Dreiser's Chicago / T. Austin Graham ; Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, and George Ade : a new urban vernacular / John Wharton Lowe
- Part III: Radicalism, modernism, and the Chicago renaissance. Progressive Chicago : Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and social reform literature / Rachel Elin Nolan ; From the prairie to the city : Willa Cather's "City of feeling"/ Mark A. Robison ; Poetry, the Little review, and Chicago modernism / Bartholomew Brinkman ; A spirit of two ages : the romantic modernism of Carl Sandburg's Chicago poems / John Marsh ; Building a movement : Mary Reynolds Aldis and little theatre in Chicago / Megan E. Geigner ; Father to son : Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago renaissance / Timothy B. Spears
- Part IV. A city of neighborhoods : the Great Depression, sociology, and the black Chicago renaissance. Chicago ecology and James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan / Moacir P. de SaÌ? Pereira ; Chicago gets the blues : migration, depression, and the black renaissance / Richard A. Courage ; Black Chicago : Richard Wright's South Side / William R. Nash ; Life in Bronzeville : humanism and community in the work of Gwendolyn Brooks / Courtney Pierre Joseph ; Hustlers, junkies, and prostitutes : Nelson Algren's white slums / Ian Peddie ; From emptyland to uncanny city : Saul Bellow's Jewish Chicago / Alan Bilton
- Part V. Traditions and futures : contemporary Chicago literatures. Division Street America : the nine Chicago literary lives of Studs Terkel / Tony Macaluso ; Sexual and other perversities : David Mamet and contemporary Chicago theater / Ira Nadel ; Chicago crime, blue collar and white : Sara Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski novels / Charlotte Beyer ; Drawing Chicago : Chris Ware's graphic city / Frederik Byrn Køhlert ; Across neighborhood and national boundaries : Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago / Olga L. Herrera ; Stuart Dybek and the new Chicago's literature of neighborhood / Carlo Rotella ; Chicago now : Aleksandar Hemon, Dmitry Samarov, Erika L. SaÌ?nchez, and the contemporary city of immigrants / Sonia Weiner ; Afterword: What will become of us? The future of Chicago literatures / Bill Savage.