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The stories we tell : modernism in the Tri-Cities / edited by Meg Gillette

Rock Island, Illinois : East Hall Press at Augustana College, 2014.

viii, 196 pages ; 20 cm

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of the important writers in America hailed from the Tri-Cities. Today, few people know their names. This collection of stories, poems ,plays, and letter by these little-known writers, with introductory essays by Augustana College English students, invites a new generation of readers to discover this rich literary history.

Editor information from front cover.

Editor is a former St. Ambrose University faculty member.

Includes bibliographical references.

Authors, American -- Iowa -- 19th century.

Authors, American -- Illinois -- 19th century.

Authors, American -- Illinois -- 20th century.

Authors, American -- Iowa -- 20th century.

Davenport (Iowa) -- History.

Rock Island (Ill.) -- History.

Moline (Ill.) -- History.

Gillette, Meg editor of compilation

Modernism in the Tri-Cities

Introduction / Meg Gillette -- Her Lorelei: Alice French and the Woman's Sphere in the nineteenth century / Elizabeth O'Hara -- My Lorelei - a Heidelberg romance / Alice French -- The heartland stained yellow: Midwestern free-thinkers / Megan Boedecker -- The coverage of Hossack murder case / Susan Glaspell -- The salvation of the working class / Floyd Dell -- What are you doing out there / Floyd Dell -- Susan Glaspell, Existenilalist / Isaac Lauritsen -- Act 1 from The Verge / Susan Glaspell -- Into the vast inane: the journey of Arthur Davison Ficke / Malcolm Simon -- Spectra: a book of poetic experiments / Arthur D. Ficke -- An April elegy / Arthur D. Ficke -- And it teaches us: Floyd Dell and the Midwest / Catrina Doyle -- Moon-calf / Floyd Dell -- Convention to choice: feminism in the writings of Floyd Dell / Christina Kunkel -- Janel March / Floyd Dell -- Buffalo Bill Cody: western hero of the Quad Cities / Tyler Spellious -- The autobiography of Buffalo Bill / William Cody -- Laura Seeber -- Swift rivers / Cornelia Meigs -- Charlotte Murray Russell's female sleuth: pushing the boundaries of the cozy / Carrie Reitz -- Letters from Camp McClellan (1862, translated 2014) -- I is so: the Dakota internment at Fort McClellan / Alexandria Petrassi.

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