The Chicago of Fiction

The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide , James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published