Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-307) and index.
Contents
Pt.1. Frontiers of desire. Shock city ; John and Frances Glessner ; Stories of the rising city. -- Pt. 2. Exiles in suckerland. George Ade and John T. McCutcheon ; The place of nostalgia. -- Pt. 3. The politics of being native. Jane Addams ; Among immigrants. -- Pt. 4. Border crossings. Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and Tennessee Mitchell ; Chicago dreaming.