The Chicago literary experience : writing the city, 1893-1953 / / Frederik Byrn Køhlert

• Autore: Køhlert Frederik Byrn
• Pubblicazione: Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2011; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9977311
• Soggetto topico: American literature - History and criticism; Literature - Appreciation - Illinois - Chicago
• Soggetto geografico: Chicago (Ill.) Intellectual life
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; Back cover
• Titolo autorizzato: The Chicago literary experience
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797284103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II