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1) Winesburg, Ohio

Author

Anderson, Sherwood

Series

Viking Compass book C39
Dover thrift editions
World's classics
Signet classic
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Language

English

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"Book" books
Chicago Renaissance

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

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Profiles the people of a small midwestern town in the early 1900s, revealing the consequences of human misunderstanding.

2) Readings on Our town

Series

Greenhaven Press literary companion to American literature

Publisher

Greenhaven Press

Pub. Date

[2000]

Language

English

3) Chicago: creating new traditions

Author

Duis, Perry

Publisher

Chicago Historical Society

Pub. Date

1976.

Language

English

Description

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Presents architecture in Chicago, the Plan of Chicago, Riverside, the Pullman Community, Hull House, Art Institute of Chicago, Auditorium Theater, Marshall Field dept store, Sears and Montgomery Ward dept. stores.

4) The city of Dickens

Author

Welsh, Alexander

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Pub. Date

1971.

Language

English

5) Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town

Author

Stacy, Jason

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

Description

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"A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the...

6) Winesburg, Ohio, notes: including: life and background, an introduction to the work, list of characters, critical commentaries, the setting, Anderson's style, review questions, selected bibliography

Author

Morris, Ann R

Series

Cliffs notes

Publisher

Cliffs Notes

Pub. Date

[1974]

Language

English

7) Walk on the wild side: urban American poetry since 1975

Publisher

C. Scribner's Sons

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

8) Sweet home: invisible cities in the Afro-American novel

Author

Scruggs, Charles

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Pub. Date

[1993]

Language

English

9) Chicago and the American literary imagination, 1880-1920

Author

Smith, Carl S

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

1984.

Language

English

10) Thousands of Broadways: dreams and nightmares of the American small town

Author

Pinsky, Robert

Series

Rice University Campbell lectures

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

11) "Who set you flowin'?": the African-American migration narrative

Author

Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Series

Race and American culture

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

12) Small town Chicago: the comic perspective of Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Ring Lardner

Author

DeMuth, James

Series

Interdisciplinary urban
National university publications

Publisher

Kennikat Press

Pub. Date

1980.

Language

English

13) The last avant-garde: the making of the New York School of Poets

Author

Lehman, David

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

1998.

Language

English

14) The walker: on finding and losing yourself in the modern city

Author

Beaumont, Matthew

Publisher

Verso

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

Description

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"Whether one considers Dickens's insomniac night-time perambulations or restless excursions through the faceless monuments of today's neoliberal city, the act of walking is one of self-discovery and escape, of disappearances and secret subversions. Pacing stride for stride alongside literary amblers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe, André Breton, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Ray Bradbury, Beaumont explores the relationship between...