Table of Contents

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

Promotional Information

Based on extensive archival research, this book offers new insights about Chicago literature, history and its influence on American Modernism including new sources for Fitgerald's The Great Gatsby.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

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*