Dreiser on the Web

by Roger W. Smith

7. Scholarly Papers

[See also articles listed above, 1. Web Sites Dedicated to Dreiser: DreiserWebSource.]

Bourne, Randolph. “The Art of Theodore Dreiser.” Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/BouArto.html . While not so identified, the article first appeared in Randolph Bourne, History of a Literary Radical (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1920) and was reprinted in Alfred Kazin and Charles Shapiro, eds., The Stature of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Survey of the Man and His Work (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1955).

Brinkley, Douglas. “Chant of Middle America: Theodore Dreiser, A Hoosier Holiday, and the Birth of the Road Book.” Indiana Historical Society.

http://www.indianahistory.org/pub/traces/hholiday.html . Contains Brinkley’s introduction to the Indiana University Press edition of A Hoosier Holiday.

Fast, Howard, “Dreiser’s Short Stories.” Trussel’s ElectiCity. Howard Fast texts online.

http://www.trussel.com/hf/plots/t499.htm . Originally published in New Masses 60 (3 Sept. 1946): 11–12. A slightly shorter version of this article appears as Fast’s introduction to The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser (Cleveland: World, 1947; reprinted 1989 by Ivan R. Dee).

Griffin, Joseph. “Howard Fast, James T. Farrell, and The Best Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser.” International Fiction Review 14 (1987): 79–83.

http://www.trussel.com/hf/dreiser.htm .

Oldani, Louis J. “Dreiser’s ‘Genius’ in the Making: Composition and Revision.” Studies in Bibliography (electronic journal) 47 (1994): 230–52.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/ .

Pitofsky, Alex. “Dreiser’s The Financier and the Horatio Alger Myth.” Twentieth Century Literature 44 (1998): 276–90.

 http://zeal.com/exit.jhtml?cid=535158&wid=60361807&so=&xr=/category/ preview.jhtml%3Fcid%3D535158 .

Stenerson, Douglas C. “Some Impressions of the Buddha: Dreiser and Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia.” Canadian Review of American Studies 3 (1991): 387–405.

http://sino-sv3.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/FULLTEXT/JR-ADM/steneo.htm .

Sterne, Richard C. “Dreiser’s Sense of ‘Injustice’ in An American Tragedy.” Legal Studies Forum 16 (1992): 333–51.

http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/sterne16.htm .

Trilling, Lionel. “Reality in America.” The Liberal Imagination (New York: Viking, 1950), 3–22. American Studies at the University of Virginia.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/trilling.html .

West, James L. W. III. “Dreiser and the B. W. Dodge Sister Carrie.” Studies in Bibliography (electronic journal) 35 (1982): 323–331.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/bsuva/sb/ .