Nurit RubinsteinDr. M. ShulakAmerican Literature II2.4.14 The Little ReviewMake no compromises for public taste (until we are sued!)The Little Review was a magazine founded in Chicago and created during the Chicago Literary Renaissance. The Literary Renaissance was a pivotal moment in literary history and was the result of a Chicago literary festival, which took place in 1893, during which many prominent writers from the Middle West were encouraged to come to Chicago to write. The height of this Literary Renaissance would reach its peak in the early 1900s with the publication of the novels of Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Dreiser. La Petite Revue would be founded and published following this movement. Margaret C. Anderson was the Joan of Arc of our literary crusade. Anderson began publishing The Little Review in Chicago in 1914. Anderson herself was a native of Indianapolis and from upper-middle-class society, but after college she gave up her conservative lifestyle, moved to Chicago and began publishing The Little Review. Anderson's intentions were clear; she created the magazine to make criticism part of today's literary culture, because Anderson believed that "criticism as an art has not flourished in this country." We live too fast to have time to appreciate; and criticism, after all, has only one synonym: appreciation. (Petite Revue vol.1 number 1). By the time 1916 rolled around, Anderson had already garnered some favorable attention. The same year, Anderson would meet Jane Heap. These two women would become lovers, work colleagues, and essential to the development of an American canonization. Jane Heap joined “The Little Review” in 1916, and although her contributions were few and varied; if...... middle of paper ......, which we learn from romance novels, are not realistic. Although Joyce's and Eliot's stories are very different, one was deemed illegal for obscenity, while the other was the former. and last of a dying breed. They both come to reflect the magazine as it was, an avant-garde magazine. A magazine that publishes completely original ideas, while remaining relevant to the public; Joyce and Eliot were pioneers of the modernist movement, but what made them unique was their brand of modernism; one who mixes old ideas with new concepts. These were the men who represented The Little Review with their words, while their valiant leaders: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap and Ezra Pound were the ones who represented The Little Review through their warnings about their past lifestyles to embark on a new adventure - or maybe an old adventure in a new light.