A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313093571
Total Pages : 456 pages
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Download or read book A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia written by Keith Newlin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-07-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dreiser Studies

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Total Pages : 68 pages
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Dreiser Studies

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Total Pages : 248 pages
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The Trouble with Dreiser

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604976438
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis The Trouble with Dreiser by : Annemarie Koning Whaley

Download or read book The Trouble with Dreiser written by Annemarie Koning Whaley and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes the restored version of Jennie Gerhardt as a far better piece of literature than the 1911 edition. It is also the first extensive study of the damaging effects of the editorial process on a significant work of American literature. This study carefully compares the restored edition to the 1911 edition, revealing clear and precise patterns to the Harper editing. These patterns, in turn, suggest that the Harper editors deliberately approached Dreiser's original manuscript with the intention of softening its social and moral content. This study argues that the firm's historical emphasis on family values and its lengthy bout with bankruptcy and reorganization, coupled with the conservative social and moral climate at the turn of the century, motivated the house to edit the novel with a heavy and censorious hand. The end result was a more agreeable and, therefore, more saleable book. This study also provides an extensive discussion on the probable reasons why Dreiser acquiesced to changes he felt were not in the best interest of his novel. By continually placing material from the 1911 edition alongside that of the restored edition and then situating the cuts and emendations within their appropriate thematic, historical, cultural, social, moral, biographical, and autobiographical contexts, readers will see how the editors distorted Dreiser's original writing of every major character, their interaction with their environment, and their relationship with others. Readers will also see how the editing blunted, and in some cases completely erased, Dreiser's criticism of the wealthy capitalist; society's understanding and treatment of the poor, the working class, and the immigrant; and traditional notions of motherhood, womanhood, relationships, and the American Dream. This study argues that once Dreiser's original language is restored, Jennie Gerhardt can stand alongside Dreiser's other novels and can add to critical discussions on class, gender, morality, ethnicity, naturalism, and romanticism in Dreiser's fiction. The Trouble with Dreiser: Harper and the Editing of Jennie Gerhardt is an important work for collections of American literature, Theodore Dreiser, textual studies, early twentieth-century cultural studies (especially those interested in ethnicity), and early twentieth-century historical studies.

Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo

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Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826260381
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo written by Clare Virginia Eby and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Dreiser and Veblen make up a neglected chapter in the history of United States cultural criticism. Their central subjects (such as the myriad effects of consumer capitalism and the invidious status system) still preoccupy cultural critics, and with good reason. Veblen and Dreiser also pioneered strategies for positioning themselves as confrontational intellectuals (such as by attacking foundationalism and claims of epistemological certainty) that continue to inform the practice of many cultural critics. Thus, in both subject matter and rhetorical strategy, Dreiser’s and Veblen’s writings provide prototypes for the work that many United States scholars want to do now, work which often turns to European or postmodern theory for inspiration. In making this claim about the usefulness of Dreiser and Veblen for current intellectual work, my argument parallels recent rehabilitations of American thinkers.

The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894654
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser by : Leonard Cassuto

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser written by Leonard Cassuto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Theodore Dreiser

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814730744
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Book Synopsis Theodore Dreiser by : Miriam Gogol

Download or read book Theodore Dreiser written by Miriam Gogol and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser is indisputably one of America's most important twentieth-century novelists. An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie, and Jennie Gerhardt have all made an indelible mark on the American literary landscape. And yet, remarkably few critical books and no recent collections of critical essays have been published that attempt to answer current theoretical questions about Dreiser's entire canon. This collection is the first to appear in twenty-four years. The ten contributing essayists offer original interpretations of Dreiser's works from such disparate points of view as new historicism, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, film studies, and canon formation. A vital reassessment, Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism brings this influential modern writer into the 1990s by viewing him through the lens of the latest literary theory and cultural criticism.

An American Tragedy

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Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753507
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Book Synopsis An American Tragedy by : Paul A. Orlov

Download or read book An American Tragedy written by Paul A. Orlov and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's premise is that a novel's ideas about the human drama are not necessarily the same as those its author consciously holds - meaning that a close reading of Theodore Dreiser's artistic portrayal of modern America in An American Tragedy reveals the idea that he transcends the empirical premises of his presumed naturalistic thought to affirm the reality of the self and the importance of selfhood. Based on this crucial premise and intensive analysis of the novel's text, Professor Orlov's study develops an argument offering many original views of the Tragedy's meanings and artistry. There is new light here on the fact that Dreiser sees the subversion of the idea of self in a highly materialistic society as the heart of his characters' tragic experiences. Ultimately, then, this study suggests that An American Tragedy is an antinaturalistic statement about the self's intrinsic importance.

Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt"

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291557
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt" by : James L. W. West, III

Download or read book Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt" written by James L. W. West, III and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character. The restored edition brings back the sexual charge, reinstates the social and religious criticism, and makes the language Dreiser's again. This volume brings together 19 fresh readings, together with an introduction, of the Pennsylvania edition by three generations of Dreiser critics. The volume includes general assessments, analysis of main characters, treatments of the autobiographical roots of the narrative, views of various traditions (realistic, sentimental, ethnic) on which Dreiser drew, and investigations of historical contexts that inform his story.

Pagan Dreiser

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638873
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (388 download)

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Book Synopsis Pagan Dreiser by : Shawn St. Jean

Download or read book Pagan Dreiser written by Shawn St. Jean and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of Contents

Engaging Dreiser

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Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
ISBN 13 : 9783825357757
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Engaging Dreiser by : Renate von Bardeleben

Download or read book Engaging Dreiser written by Renate von Bardeleben and published by Universitatsverlag Winter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long since recognized as a principal exponent of American Naturalism and a central figure of U.S. cultural life, Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) has been the focus of renewed academic interest in the past three decades. This renaissance in Dreiser Studies - ushered in by Richard Lingeman's two-volume biography Theodore Dreiser: 'At the Gates of the City', 1871-1907 & 'An American Journey', 1908-1945 (1986/90) and enhanced by the painstaking labors of those engaged in The Dreiser Edition - has led to an impressive array of new and exciting work. Meant to contribute to the reevaluation of a classic of American literary modernism, the present volume contains the collected essays of one of the leading international Dreiser scholars. Publishing on Dreiser's life and letters since 1967, and serving on the advisory and editorial boards of the International Theodore Dreiser Society, the journals 'Dreiser Studies' and 'Studies in American Naturalism', and the University of Illinois Dreiser Edition, Renate von Bardeleben has played a major role in correcting the negative image early biographers such as Swanberg (1965) had presented of Dreiser's personality. In addition to shedding light on neglected aspects of the latter's eventful biography and multifaceted writings, the essays included in this collection reveal 'A Traveler at Forty' (1913) to be a key text in Dreiser's far-reaching oeuvre. Von Bardeleben's meticulous analysis of the history and multiple pre- and unpublished versions of this travel memoir eventually resulted in the first unabridged edition of 'A Traveler' (Dreiser Edition, 2005).

Sexualizing Power in Naturalism

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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1895176395
Total Pages : 273 pages
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Book Synopsis Sexualizing Power in Naturalism by : Irene Gammel

Download or read book Sexualizing Power in Naturalism written by Irene Gammel and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a revisionary reading of German, Canadian, and American texts such as Fanny Essler, Settlers of the Marsh, and Sister Carrie, Gammel (English, U. of Prince Edward Island) attributes to naturalism, a predominantly male genre, the appropriation of a disruptive female sexuality not so much to "liberate" it from Victorian repression as to contain it within the male boundaries of naturalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature

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Publisher : Digital Library Federation
ISBN 13 : 1933645288
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (336 download)

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Book Synopsis A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by : Martha L. Brogan

Download or read book A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature written by Martha L. Brogan and published by Digital Library Federation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature; and to identify the prevailing concerns of specialists in the field as expressed during interviews conducted between July 2004 and May 2005. Part two of the report consolidates the results of these interviews with an exploration of resources currently available. Part three examines six categories of digital work in progress: (1) quality-controlled subject gateways, (2) author studies, (3) public domain e-book collections and alternative publishing models, (4) proprietary reference resources and full-text primary source collections, (5) collections by design, and (6) teaching applications. This survey is informed by a selective review of the recent literature."--CLIR Web site.

Delphi Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser (Illustrated)

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Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1786560801
Total Pages : 4382 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Theodore Dreiser (Illustrated) written by Theodore Dreiser and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 4382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American writer of the naturalist school, Theodore Dreiser produced controversial novels, often featuring protagonists that succeeded at their objectives in spite of their lack of morality. Celebrated novels such as ‘Sister Carrie’ and ‘An American Tragedy’ led to Dreiser’s nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature, establishing his name as an American master. This comprehensive eBook presents Dreiser’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dreiser’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 6 novels in the US public domain, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Includes Dreiser’s plays, first time in digital print * A selection of Dreiser’s non-fiction * Special ‘Contextual Pieces’ section, with reviews, letters and essays evaluating Dreiser’s contribution to literature * Features Dreiser’s autobiography ‘A Book About Myself’ - discover the author’s personal and literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: two novels and a short story collection published after 1922 cannot appear in this collection due to copyright. When new texts enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Novels Sister Carrie Jennie Gerhardt The Financier The Titan The “Genius” The Shorter Fiction Free and Other Stories The Plays Plays of the Natural and Supernatural The Hand of the Potter The Non-Fiction A Traveler at Forty A Hoosier Holiday Twelve Men Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub The Contextual Pieces Contextual Articles, Essays and Reviews The Autobiography A Book About Myself Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Dreiser's Russian Diary

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292383
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Download or read book Dreiser's Russian Diary written by Theodore Dreiser and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make an extended tour of the country. This previously unpublished diary is a firsthand record of life in the USSR during the 1920s as seen by a leading American cultural figure. It is a valuable primary source, surely among the last from this period of modern history.

The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313091471
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites by : Larry G. Hinman

Download or read book The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites written by Larry G. Hinman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.

Jennie Gerhardt

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291530
Total Pages : 452 pages
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Download or read book Jennie Gerhardt written by Theodore Dreiser and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regarded as one of Dreiser's best novels, Jennie Gerhardt is here recaptured as it was originally written, restoring it to its complete, unexpurgated form.