Chicago and the making of American modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in conflict

'Chicago and the Making of American Modernism' is the first full-length study of the vexed relationship between America's great modernist writers and the nation's 'second city.' Michelle E.

Moore explores the ways in which the defining writers of the era - Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F.

Scott Fitzgerald - engaged with the city and reacted against the commercial styles of 'Chicago realism' to pursue their own, European-influenced mode of modernist art.