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- Chicago: A Literary History
- Chicago
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literary History of Chicago
- Part I The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West
- Part II Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature
- Part III Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Chapter 11 Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature
- Chapter 12 From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather’s “City of Feeling”
- Chapter 13 Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism
- Chapter 14 A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
- Chapter 15 Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago
- Chapter 16 Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Part IV A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance
- Part V Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 13 - Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism
from Part III - Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
- Chicago: A Literary History
- Chicago
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Literary History of Chicago
- Part I The Rise of Chicago and the Literary West
- Part II Business Unusual: A New Urban American Literature
- Part III Radicalism, Modernism, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Chapter 11 Progressive Chicago: Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and Social Reform Literature
- Chapter 12 From the Prairie to the City: Willa Cather’s “City of Feeling”
- Chapter 13 Poetry, the Little Review, and Chicago Modernism
- Chapter 14 A Spirit of Two Ages: The Romantic Modernism of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems
- Chapter 15 Building a Movement: Mary Reynolds Aldis and Little Theatre in Chicago
- Chapter 16 Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance
- Part IV A City of Neighborhoods: The Great Depression, Sociology, and the Black Chicago Renaissance
- Part V Traditions and Futures: Contemporary Chicago Literatures
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The little magazines Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and the Little Review were instrumental in promoting the Chicago Literary Renaissance and Chicago modernism. I investigate their central roles, reading these magazines as privileged sites of modern cultural production and reception as well as important cultural objects in their own right. First, I explain how these magazines relied on local benefactors and advertising to jostle for position among Chicago’s musical, visual, and theatrical arts, as well as within a periodical field that included such other established Chicago magazines as The Dial. I then consider the literary presence of Chicago in both magazines, incorporating digital humanities methodologies to locate Chicago-based contributors (including Carl Sandburg and Sherwood Anderson, along with lesser-known figures) and to identify the many poems and prose pieces associated with the city – highlighting individual literary achievements as well as shared images and tropes.
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- ChicagoA Literary History, pp. 180 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021