Literary Chicago
Literary Chicago

Author: Greg Holden

Publisher: Lake Claremont Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9781893121010

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A collection of anecdotes and excerpts collected from Chicago's rich literary legacy, with profiles of the neighborhoods featured in key works and those that inspired some of the city's authors.

The Fear of Sinking
The Fear of Sinking

Author: Paulette D. Kilmer

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780870499395

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In this provocative study, Paulette D. Kilmer examines the ways in which the national preoccupation with success and its attendant anxieties have been manifested in popular culture. Her focus is on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - an era in which industrial growth and urbanization wrought enormous changes in the country.