Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel

by Carla Cappetti, Jonathan Arac (Editor)

Writing Chicago uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of the 1930s, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and James T. Farrell, all of whom integrated sociological theories into their own work.

274 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993