Literary Capital of the West
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- 60 W Walton St, Chicago, IL
- 9 hours over 6 sessions
Feb 6th
6–8pm CST
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What you'll learn in this history lesson:
Literary Capital of the West: Chicago Writing before 1890
This course explores the evolving relationship between Western and urban identities in Chicago writing from the 1840s through the 1880s. Histories of Chicago literature often start around 1890, with the urban sketches of writers like Finley Peter Dunne.
Chicago’s antebellum literature, however, was very different, aimed at rural readers in the city’s railroad empire. After the Civil War, this agrarian focus persisted even as interest in writing about the city itself started to grow.
As we survey these changes we will view many publications in the Newberry’s collections, including the city’s earliest literary paper, the Gem of the Prairie; the poetry in the Haymarket anarchists’ Alarm; Juliette Kinzie’s early settler memoir Wau Bun; and Barriers Burned Away, E.P. Roe’s overnight bestseller about the Great Chicago Fire.
MATERIALS LIST: Instructor-Distributed Materials
First Reading: A PDF reading packet will be provided before the first meeting.
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Requests for refunds must be received in writing. To request a refund, email us at [email protected].
- For single- and two-session seminars, tuition (less 10% processing fee) is refundable until 2 business day before the seminar begins.
- For seminars meeting more than twice, tuition (less 10% processing fee) is refundable until 2 business day prior to the second class meeting; we cannot give a refund once the seminar has met a second time.
If the seminar fails to reach a minimum of seven registrations before the early registration deadline (one week before the first day of the term), the seminar will be canceled and all participants will be refunded less a 5% non-refundable registration fee. The instructor is required to teach the seminar if it reaches seven registrations prior to the early registration deadline. In some cases, a seminar may be offered with fewer than seven registrations at the option of the instructor.
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The Newberry
The Newberry is home to a world-class collection of books, manuscripts, maps, music, and other handmade and printed materials related to the history and culture of Western Europe and the Americas. The collections span many centuries and feature items such as illuminated medieval manuscripts, rare early...
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The Newberry
Near North Side, Downtown/Loop
60 W Walton St
Btwn N Clark & N Dearborn Streets
Chicago, Illinois 60610 Near North Side, Downtown/Loop
60 W Walton St
Btwn N Clark & N Dearborn Streets
Chicago, Illinois 60610
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