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Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Chicago Renaissance Writers (Literary Movements)
Jan Pinkerton
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The Chicago Renaissance began in the early 1900s and lasted until approximately 1930. The leading writers of the period - including Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio), Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), and Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems) - focused on the increasing industrialization of American society as well as the loss of traditional rural values and their accompanying romantic ideals. The period also marked the emergence of journalism as a literary medium. The magazines Poetry, founded by Harriet Monroe, and Little Review, founded by Margaret Anderson, emerged at this time, as did the Little Theatre. All provided ... Read more
The Chicago Renaissance began in the early 1900s and lasted until approximately 1930. The leading writers of the period - including Theodore Dreiser (Sister Carrie), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio), Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), and Carl Sandburg (Chicago Poems) - focused on the increasing industrialization of American society as well as the loss of traditional rural values and their accompanying romantic ideals. The period also marked the emergence of journalism as a literary medium. The magazines Poetry, founded by Harriet Monroe, and Little Review, founded by Margaret Anderson, emerged at this time, as did the Little Theatre. All provided ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Facts on File Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780816048984
SKU
9780816048984
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About Jan Pinkerton
Jan Pinkerton holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard University. She recently retired from Chicago State University, where she taught American and English literature for 30 years. She has published articles in Yale Review, New England Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, American Literature, Journal of Popular Culture, and other scholarly journals. Her other works include a freshman composition anthology, Love, Violence, Capitalism, ... Read more
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