Leonard Cassuto / Clare Virginia Eby (eds.)

The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

Herausgeber: Cassuto, Leonard; Leonard, Cassuto; Eby, Clare

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Produktbeschreibung

This Companion is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521894654
• ISBN-10: 0521894654
• Artikelnr.: 21575302

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chronology
Part I. Background and Contexts: 1. Dreiser and the profession of authorship James L. W. West III
2. Dreiser and the uses of biography Thomas P. Riggio
3. Dreiser's style Paul Giles
4. Dreiser and the history of American longing Jackson Lears
Part II. Dreiser and his Culture: 5. The matter of Dreiser's modernity Bill Brown
6. Dreiser, class, and the home Catherine Jurca
7. Dreiser and the ideology of upward mobility Bruce Robbins
8. Dreiser, art, and the museum Miles Orvell
9. Dreiser and women Clare Virginia Eby
10. Sister Carrie, race, and the World's Columbian Exposition Christopher Gair
11. Dreiser's sociological vision Priscilla Wald
12. Dreiser and crime Leonard Cassuto.