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<p>When Theodore Dreiser first published <i>Sister Carrie</i> in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality—for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature.<br> Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking <i>An American Tragedy</i> in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, an

Who reads The Last Titan : A Life of Theodore Dreiser?

Author

Jerome Loving

Publisher

Berkeley: University of California Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520234819

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.89 / 5 (18 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14