Chicago and the Making of American Modernism

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: The Fire, The Columbian Exhibition, and The Boosters1. Henry Blake Fuller and Chicago2. Harriet Monroe and ChicagoThe Columbian Exhibition, The “Columbian Ode,” and CopyrightWorker’s Rights and Arts and Crafts: The Verdict in Context3. Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson and ChicagoEdgar Lee Masters’ Critique of ChicagoSherwood Anderson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Craftsman IdealPart 2: Making Modernism Out of Chicago4. Willa Cather and ChicagoElia Peattie and Willa Cather’s Embrace of the Modern Willa Cather’s Critique of Chicago: The Song of the LarkFanny Butcher and the Crass Commercialism of the Book Market5. Ernest Hemingway and ChicagoOak Park, Chicago, and the Idea of the “Good Businessman”The Business of Making Good, Honest ModernismMaking Good Modernism Out of Bad BusinessThe Bad Business of Patronage 6. William Faulkner and ChicagoThe Mosquitoes, Double Dealers, and Confidence MenSanctuary, Gangsters, and UlyssesWild Palms and the Historical Exchange Between Chicago and the South7. F. Scott Fitzgerald and ChicagoGinevra King: True to TypeThe Medills and The McCormicks: “The Camel’s Back” Eleanor “Cissy” and Joseph Patterson: “May Day”Chicago Plots: Among the Ash Heaps and the MillionairesWorks CitedIndex

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