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ToolsKøhlert, Frederik Bryn, ed. (2021) Chicago:A Literary History. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108477512
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Chicago occupies a central position in both the geography and literary history of the United States. From its founding in 1833 through to its modern incarnation, the city has served as both a thoroughfare for the nation's goods and a crossroads for its cultural energies. The idea of Chicago as a crossroads of modern America is what guides this literary history, which traces how writers have responded to a rapidly changing urban environment and labored to make sense of its place in - and implications for - the larger whole. In writing that engages with the world's first skyscrapers and elevated railroads, extreme economic and racial inequality, a growing middle class, ethnic and multiethnic neighborhoods, the Great Migration of African Americans, and the city's contemporary incarnation as a cosmopolitan urban center, Chicago has been home to a diverse literature that has both captured and guided the themes of modern America.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2021 00:25 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2025 01:14 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81468 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108763738 |
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