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In His Life And In His Work Theodore Dreiser Was Nothing If Not Genuinely American. True To The American Dream, He Overcame A Childhood Characterized Largely By Its Impoverishment - Material, Social, Educational, And Emotional - To Attain A Large Measure Of Success. The Territory Of His Novels Is Often The Territory Of His Childhood: Life Unadorned In The Great Industrial Cities Of Early Modern America. In Theodore Dreiser Revisited, Philip Gerber Argues That Dreiser's Life Is Woven ... Inextricably Into His Novels. Like Dreiser, Many Of His Characters Struggle To Escape Their Meager, Often Shabby Existences, But Generally With Much Less Success Than Their Creator. Dreiser Identified With The Ordinary Man And Woman Of The Early Twentieth Century. He Depicted Their Position As The Tiniest Of Cogs In The Colossal American Industrial Machine With Unflinching Realism, Making Him A Herald Of Literary Naturalism.^ In This Revised And Expanded Edition Of His Earlier Effort, Gerber Places Dreiser At The Very Brink Of The Naturalist Tradition. He Traces The Influence Of Its Progenitor, Emile Zola, On The Short-lived American Writers Stephen Crane And Frank Norris, And Shows Dreiser To Be Th

Author

Philip L. Gerber

Publisher

Twayne ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805739664

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities