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The Great Chicago Fire Paperback – October 12, 2000

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  1. Print length
    296 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    University of Illinois Press
  4. Publication date
    October 12, 2000
  5. Dimensions
    9 x 5.98 x 0.76 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0252069145
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0252069147
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On October 8, 1871, four decades after its founding, Chicago's destiny was rewritten "with a pen of fire". In this imaginative and penetrating study, Ross Miller considers the mythic proportions of the Great Chicago Fire as the city reshaped its own tragedy into an archetype of the modern struggle against adversity.

Amid myriad eyewitness and photographic accounts of the fire, a consideration of what had actually happened was quickly subordinated to a developing narrative that attempted to resolve the city's conflicted identity into a unity. Disaster was recast as opportunity, and a period that began with catastrophic destruction ended in the triumph of the World's Columbian Exposition. Within a generation of the fire, Chicago became home to a radical new architecture, a daring new realistic fiction, literary journalism, and the new scientific study of society.

About the Author

Ross Miller is a professor in the Department of English and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut at Storrs.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; Illustrated edition (October 12, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252069145
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252069147
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9 x 5.98 x 0.76 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    2.6 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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