Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Backgrounds and contexts

pp 13-14

1 - Dreiser and the profession of authorship

pp 15-29

2 - Dreiser and the uses of biography

pp 30-46

3 - Dreiser’s style

pp 47-62

4 - Dreiser and the history of American longing

pp 63-80

Part II - Dreiser and his culture

pp 81-82

5 - The matter of Dreiser’s modernity

pp 83-99

6 - Dreiser, class, and the home

pp 100-111

7 - Can there be loyalty in The Financier? Dreiser and upward mobility

pp 112-126

8 - Dreiser, art, and the museum

pp 127-141

9 - Dreiser and women

pp 142-159

10 - Sister Carrie, race, and the World’s Columbian Exposition

pp 160-176

11 - Dreiser’s sociological vision

pp 177-195

12 - Dreiser and crime

pp 196-213

Select bibliography

pp 214-223

Index

pp 224-234