Author: Edward D. McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Edward D. McDonald
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780833723284
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Author: Donald Pizer
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 194295445X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 349

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This book brings together for the first time, published and unpublished memoirs about the American novelist Theodore Dreiser. The recollections of Dreiser's contemporaries bring to the fore the writer's politics, personal life, and literary reception. Donald Pizer is one of the world's leading scholars of Dreiser and of naturalism.

Author: James L. W. West
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271050675
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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"A collection of essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III, covering editorial theory, archival use, textual emendation, and scholarly annotation. Discusses the treatment of both public documents (novels, stories, nonfiction) and private texts (letters, diaries, journals, working papers)"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Modern Humanities Research Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 706

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Includes both books and articles.

Author: John Horden
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Keith Newlin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313093571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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For a century, Theodore Dreiser has represented for many readers a rebellious modernism whose novels both critiqued the American dream and embodied a bleakly deterministic perception of life. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was reluctantly published and then ignored by its publisher, who thought the book immoral. Another publisher withdrew his fifth novel, The Genius (1915), rather than face prosecution on obscenity charges. Dreiser did not enjoy widespread popularity and critical acclaim until his masterpiece, An American Tragedy, appeared in 1925. This reference is an authoritative guide to his life and works. Included are several hundred entries on each of Dreiser's books and short stories, as well as magazine and newspaper pieces he collected during his life. Noteworthy uncollected and posthumously collected works are given separate entries, as are major characters in the novels, family members, friends, and other persons important to understanding his writings. There are also entries on Dreiser's publishers, his major influences, the places and events important to his life, and the literary and social contexts of his works. Expert contributors wrote each of the entries, many of which cite works for further reading. The volume closes with a selected bibliography of works by and about Dreiser.

Author: Leonard Cassuto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894654
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume establish new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.

Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780252031069
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026894944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 803

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The "Genius" concerns Eugene Witla, a talented painter of strong sexual desires who grapples with his commitment to his art and the force of his erotic needs. Young Eugene escapes the confines of the small town in Illinois where he has been raised to make his way in Chicago. There he studies painting and enjoys the excitement of the city. Eugene becomes engaged to a young woman named Angela, and the couple move to New York City, where he makes a name for himself in the art world, but finds his marriage with the increasingly conventional Angela painfully limiting. Eugene finds it difficult to remain faithful as life based on monogamy seems beyond him.