Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt" : : New Essays on the Restored Text / / James L. W. West III.
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 blu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Janus-Faced Jennie
- 2. The Biographical Significance of Jennie Gerhardt
- 3. Jennie Gerkardt: Naturalism Reconsidered
- 4. Chill History and Rueful Sentiments in Jennie Gerhardt
- 5. Jennie One-Note: Dreiser's Error in Character Development
- 6. Dreiser's Ideal of Balance
- 7. Triangulating Desire in Jennie Gerhardt
- 8 Jennie Gerkardt: A Spencerian Tragedy
- 9. Jennie Through the Eyes of Thorstein Veblen
- 10. Labor and Capital in Jennie Gerhardt
- 11. Dreiser and the Genteel Tradition
- 12. "Housework Is Never Done": Domestic Labor in Jennie Gerhardt
- 13. Self-Sacrifice and Shame in Jennie Gerkardt
- 14. Jennie, Maggie, and the City
- 15. Jennie Gerhardt and the Dream of the Pastoral
- 16. How German Is Jennie Gerkardt?
- 17. Samuel E. [G]ross: Dreiser's Real Estate Magnate
- 18. The Hotel World in Jennie Gerhardt
- 19. Death and Dying in Jennie Gerkardt
- Checklist: Criticism of the 1911 Text
- Contributors
- Index
- Backmatter