Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser

Klappentext This Companion is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available. Zusammenfassung This Companion is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available. It establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser! and provides fresh perspectives on Dreiser's writing as well as on topics of perennial interest! such as his representation of the city and his prose style. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Leonard Cassuto, Leonard Eby Cassuto
• Mitarbeit: Leonard Cassuto (Herausgeber), Clare Eby (Herausgeber), Clare Virginia Eby (Herausgeber), Cassuto Leonard (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.02.2004
• EAN: 9780521894654
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89465-4
• Seiten: 260
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft