Michelle E. Moore, Chicago and the Making of American Modernism. Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict

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Michelle E. Moore, Chicago and the Making of American Modernism. Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald in Conflict London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 247. ISBN: 9781350018037 Andreas Hubner, Leuphana University Luneburg American modernist writers are rarely associated with turn-of-the-century Chicago and its literary scene. In the decades after the Great Fire of 1871, the city built a profit-centered reputation modernist writers were typically trying to resist. In Chicago, patronage...