Professor Michelle E. (College of DuPage, USA) Moore 
Chicago and the Making of American Modernism [PDF ebook] 
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. Drawing on local archives to illuminate the literary culture of early 20th-century Chicago, this book reveals an important new dimension to the rise of American modernism.