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Køhlert Frederik Byrn |
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The Chicago literary experience : writing the city, 1893-1953 / / Frederik Byrn Køhlert |
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Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2011 |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Literature - Appreciation - Illinois - Chicago |
Chicago (Ill.) Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front cover ; Title page ; Colophone ; Contents ; Acknowledgements; 1 - Introduction: Looking for a Chicago Tradition; 2 - The Making of a Metropolis, 1833-1893; From the Agrarian Dream to the Age of Great Cities; Years of Wonder: The Rise of Chicago ; Toward a Literary City: Hamlin Garland and Sherwood Anderson; Uncharted Literature: Chicago and the Literary West; 3 - Writing Chicago, 1893-1923; The World's Columbian Exposition; The Businessman, Art and Society in a City out of Control; Henry B. Fuller; Robert Herrick; Frank Norris; Theodore Dreiser |
The Newspaper Phenomenon and the Middle Class City of Regular PeopleEugene Field; George Ade; Life in the Slums and the Dark Side of Chicago; Jane Addams; Upton Sinclair; Jack London; The Second Generation and the Chicago Renaissance; Sherwood Anderson; Floyd Dell; Carl Sandburg; Willa Cather; Other Voices of the Chicago Renaissance; 4 - Inheriting the City, 1923-1953; The Great Depression and the Neighborhood Novel; James T. Farrell; Richard Wright; Nelson Algren; Gwendolyn Brooks; Saul Bellow; 5 - Beyond the Tradition: Perspectives in Chicago Literature since 1953; Bibliography; Index |
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