Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-223) and index.
Contents:
Background and Contexts: -- Dreiser and the profession of authorship / James L.W. West III -- Dreiser and the uses of biography / Thomas P. Riggio -- Dreiser's style / Paul Giles -- Dreiser and the history of American longing / Jackson Lears -- Dreiser and his Culture: -- The matter of Dreiser's modernity / Bill Brown -- Dreiser, class, and the home / Catherine Jurca -- Can there be loyalty in the Financier? Dreiser and the ideology of upward mobility / Bruce Robbins -- Dreiser, art, and the museum / Miles Orvell -- Dreiser and women / Clare Virginia Eby -- Sister Carrie, race, and the World's Columbian Exposition / Christopher Gair -- Dreiser's sociological vision / Priscilla Wald -- Dreiser and crime / Leonard Cassuto.
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