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Chicago renaissance : literature and art in the Midwest metropolis / Liesl Olson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xix, 373 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300203684
  • 0300203683
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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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A fascinating history of Chicago's innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century



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.



Cover art by Lincoln Schatz

Maps on endpapers.

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

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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