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Originally published in Dreiser Studies 34.2 (Winter 2003).  © 2003 Dreiser Studies

A Dreiser Checklist, 1998-1999

Roger W. Smith

This checklist supplements Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide, by Donald Pizer, Richard W. Dowell, and Frederic E. Rusch (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991). It attempts to include all significant primary and secondary works published in the years 1998 through 1999. This bibliography will also be published on the Dreiser Studies website: <http://www.uncw.edu/dreiser/studies/>.

As was the case with past checklists, this update does not include publications in which Dreiser is given only passing mention, nor does it include reviews of secondary sources. It does, however, include reviews of biographies of Dreiser; articles that contain nuggets of biographical detail (no matter how slight) that are not derivative, personal reminiscences about Dreiser, or excerpts from Dreiser’s correspondence; and books and articles that include brief original critical insight or comment on Dreiser or his works. When the relevance to Dreiser is not otherwise clear from the title, items receive brief annotations. Internet publications are not included.

For cross-referencing, each item in the checklist is preceded by an alphanumeric or numeric identifier that essentially follows the system used by Pizer, Dowell, and Rusch in Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide. For book reviews, cross-references are provided parenthetically after the title of the book being reviewed. For reprints and collections of essays, they follow the complete citation.

I wish to thank Jerzy Durczak and Karin Pfaffenbauer for responding to inquiries about specific theses written abroad.

Writings by Theodore Dreiser

A. Books, Pamphlets, Leaflets, and Broadsides

1998

A98.1. Dreiser, Theodore. Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth. Ed. T. D. Nostwich. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow, 1998. Includes annotations and index.

A98.2. ———. Sister Carrie. Saint Paul, MN: EMC/Paradigm, 1998.

A98.3. ———. Twelve Men. Ed. Robert Coltrane. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1998. Pennsylvania Dreiser Edition.

1999

A99.1. Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Introd. Andrew Delbanco. New York: Modern Library, 1999.

D. Miscellaneous Separate Publications

1998

D98.1. America: Classics That Helped Define the Nation. New York: Random, 1999. 144–52. Contains excerpts from Sister Carrie.

D98.2. Dreiser, Theodore. Free and More Stories. Read by Flo Gibson. Cassette tape, Washington, DC: Audio Book Contractors, 1998. Includes “The Second Choice,” “The Lost Phoebe,” and “Marriage.”

D98.3. ———. “The Hand.” The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories. Ed. Peter Haining. London: Constable; New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.

D98.4. ———. “Old Rogaum and His Theresa.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Fifth Edition. Ed. Nina Baym. New York and London: Norton, 1998. 792–805.

D98.5. ———, “The Second Choice.” The American Tradition in Literature. Ed. George Perkins and Barbara Perkins. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

D98.6. ———. The Titan. Read by Flo Gibson. Cassette tape. Washington, DC: Audio Book Contractors, 1998.

D98.7. ———. “True Art Speaks Plainly.” Pizer 98.43, pp. 179–80. Reprint of C03-1.

D98.8. Gross, John, ed. The New Oxford Book of English Prose. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 680–83. Contains excerpts from Sister Carrie, The Financier, and An American Tragedy.

D98.9. Lopate, Phillip, ed. Writing New York: A Literary Anthology. New York: Library of America, 1998. 327–46. Reprint of “Whence the Song” (C00-15) and “A Vanished Seaside Resort” (A23-1).

1999

D99.1. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. Read by Flo Gibson. Cassette tape. Washington, DC: Audio Book Contractors, 1999.

D99.2. ———. “The Second Choice.” The Haves and Have-Nots: 30 Stories About Money and Class in America. Ed. Barbara H. Solomon. New York: Signet Classic, 1999. 353–74.

D99.3. ———. Sister Carrie. Read by C. M. Hébert. Cassette tape. Ashland, OR: Blackstone Audiobooks, 1999.

D99.4. Parini, Jay, ed. The Norton Book of American Autobiography. New York: Norton, 1999. 289–99. Contains excerpts from A Hoosier Holiday.

D99.5. Starkey, David, and Richard Guzman, eds. Smokestacks and Skyscrapers: An Anthology of Chicago Writing. Chicago: Loyola UP, 1999. 96–103. Contains excerpts from Sister Carrie.

E. Published Letters

1998

E98.1. Flexner, James Thomas. Random Harvest. New York: Fordham UP, 1998. 29. Contains facsimile of Dreiser letter to Flexner dated 7 July 1930.

1999

E98.1. Grunwald, Lisa, and Stephen J. Adler, eds. Letters of the Century: America 1900–1999. New York: Random, 1999. 201–3. Contains Dreiser letter dated 3 April 1930 to Yvette Szekely.

F. Interviews and Speeches

1998

F98.1. Flexner, James Thomas. Random Harvest. New York: Fordham UP, 1998. 24–28. Reprint of F30-13, “Dreiser Brings Pessimism Back from U.S. Tour.”

 Writings About Theodore Dreiser

1998

98.1. Amaya, Beatriz. “Insecure Constitutions of Self: Male Perspectives on Love and Longing in Jude the Obscure and An American Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, California State Polytechnic U, Pomona, 1998.

98.2. Armstrong, Tim. Modernism, Technology, and the Body: A Cultural Study. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. 21–31, 36–39.

98.3. Bardeleben, Renate von. “Late Educations: Henry Adams and Theodore Dreiser Look at Russia.” Ars transferendi: Sprache, Übersetzung, Interkulturalität. Festschrift für Nikolai Salnikow zum 65. Geburtstag. Ed. Dieter Huber and Erika Worbs. Frankfurt a. M.: Lang, 1998. 417–31.

98.4. Błasiak, Beata. “Lycurgus and Łodź: The City in Władysław Reymont’s The Promised Land and Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, Marie Curie-Sklodowska U, Lublin, Poland, 1998.

98.5. Bradbury, Malcolm, ed. The Atlas of Literature. London: De Agostini Editions, 1996; New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 1998. 154–57, 186–89, 200–1.

98.6. Branyon, Richard. “Determinism in Zola’s L’Assommoir and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998.

98.7. Brawer, Robert A. Fictions of Business: Insights on Management from Great Literature. New York: Wiley, 1998. 143–55. Asserts that classic business novels can help managers make crucial business decisions and uses Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire” as an example.

98.8. Bourne, Randolph. “The Art of Theodore Dreiser.” Pizer 98.43, pp. 197–200. Reprint of 1917.11.

98.9. Brennan, Stephen C. Review of Theodore Dreiser’s Ev’ry Month (D96.2). Resources for American Literary Study 24.2 (1998): 278–81.

98.10. Brownell, Joseph W., and Patricia Wawrzaszek Enos. Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906. Revised edition. Cortland, NY: Brownell, 1998.

98.11. Catanese, Béatrice. “A Waif Amid Forces.” Master’s thesis, U d’Aix-Marseille I, 1998.

98.12. Chamberlain, Lesley. “I’d Rather Die in America.” Review of Dreiser’s Russian Diary (A96.2). TLS 23 Jan. 1998: 30.

98.13. Claridge, Henry. “Theodore Dreiser 1871–1945.” The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Ed. Paul Schellinger. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998. Vol. I: 336–37.

98.14. Corbett, William. “Dreiser, Theodore (1871–1945).” New York Literary Lights. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 1998. 82–83.

98.15. Crenson, Matthew A. Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1998. 9–12, 15–16. Briefly describes the involvement of James West and Dreiser in the Delineator’s “Child Rescue Campaign” and its outcome.

98.16. Curtiss, Thomas Quinn. The Smart Set: George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken. New York: Applause, 1998. 46–48, 113–16.

98.17. Den Tandt, Christophe. The Urban Sublime in American Literary Naturalism. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1998. 33–43, 55–69.

98.18. Donaldson, Susan V. “Naturalism and Novels of Besieged White Masculinity: Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris.” Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865–1914. Twayne’s Critical History of the Novel. New York: Twayne, 1998. 124–48.

98.19. Eby, Clare Virginia. Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1998.

98.20. Eckman, John Mark. “Confronting Modernity: Urbanization and American Fiction, 1880–1930.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Washington, 1998. DAI 60 (1999): 128A. Works examined include Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, which articulate a gendered modernity, offering women access to the public sphere yet severely restricting female agency.

98.21. Fleissner, Jennifer Luise. “The Ascent of Woman: Feminism, the Future, and American Naturalism.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brown U, 1998. DAI 59 (1998): 1164A. Includes chapter on Sister Carrie which argues against readings that view Carrie as a problematically sentimental figure in an otherwise realistic text.

98.22. Greco, Michael Drake. “The Corruption of Desire in McTeague and Sister Carrie and Its Darwinian Consequences.” Master’s thesis, North Carolina State U, 1998.

98.23. Holwerda, Jane Marie. “Family and Social Class in Selected Novels of Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser.” Ph.D. dissertation, Saint Louis U, 1998. DAI 59 (1999): 4192A.

98.24. Hunter, David Earl, III. “Heaven and Hell on Earth: Flux and Stasis in Literary Utopianism and Naturalism.” Master’s thesis, Rice U, 1998. MAI 36 (1998): 1241. A comparative study of Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, Frank Norris’s McTeague, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, and Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz.

98.25. Hussman, Lawrence E. “My Time with Marguerite Tjader.” Dreiser Studies 29.1&2 (1998): 3–17.

98.26. Hyman, Rebecca Charlotte. “Territories of the Self: Nervous Disease and the Social Logic of Pre-Freudian Subjectivity.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Virginia, 1998. DAI 60 (1999): 129A. Topics discussed include the medical construction of the male sexual neurasthenic and the presentation of working class masculinity by naturalist writers such as Frank Norris and Dreiser.

98.27. Jett, Kevin W. “Vision and Revision: Another Look at the 1912 and 1927 Editions of Dreiser’s The Financier.” Dreiser Studies 29.1&2 (1998): 51–73.

98.28. Joslin, Katherine. “Slum Angels: The White-Slave Narrative in Theodore Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt.Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation. Ed. Susan L. Roberson. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 1998. 106–20.

98.29. Lehan, Richard. The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History. Berkeley: U of California P, 1998. 194–205.

98.30. Levenstein, Harvey. Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. 174, 198, 202–3, 268.

98.31. Lewis, Charles R. “Desire and Indifference in Sister Carrie: Neoclassical Economic Anticipations.” Dreiser Studies 29.1&2 (1998): 18–33.

98.32. Loranger, Carol S. “ ‘Character and Success’: Teaching Sister Carrie in the Context of an On-going American Debate.” Dreiser Studies 29.1&2 (1998): 74–84.

98.33. Maiwald, Michael Heinrich. “White-Collar Masculinity and Class Anxiety in the 1920s American Novel.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke U, 1998. DAI 60 (1999): 130A. Includes discussion of An American Tragedy among other works.

98.34. Martin, Sara. “A Taste of the Best: Social Habits in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, and Abraham Cahan’s The Rise of David Levinsky.” Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 29 (1998): 39–55.

98.35. Melnick, Ralph. The Life and Work of Ludwig Lewisohn. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1998. Vol. I: 130–31, 203–4, 219–23, 226–27, 237–39, 422–23, 430–31, 648–49.

98.36. Nathan, George Jean. “Theodore Dreiser.” The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, and Commentary. Ed. Charles S. Angoff. New York: Applause, 1998. 66–79. Reprint of 1932.44.

98.37. Nostwich, T. D. Preface to Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth (A98.1): n.p.

98.38. Orlov, Paul A. An American Tragedy: Perils of the Self Seeking “Success.” Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP and Associated U Presses, 1998.

98.39. ———, and Miriam Gogol. “Prospects for the Study of Theodore Dreiser.” Resources for American Literary Study 24.1 (1998): 1–21.

98.40. Pfaffenbauer, Karin. “Theodore Dreiser: From Darwinism to Mysticism.” Master’s thesis, U of Salzburg, Austria, 1998.

98.41. Pitofsky, Alex. “Dreiser’s The Financier and the Horatio Alger Myth.” Twentieth Century Literature 44.3 (1998): 276–90.

98.42. Pizer, Donald. “American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser.” Pizer 98.43, pp. 344–54. Reprint of 1977.50.

98.43. ———, ed. Documents of American Realism and Naturalism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1998. Contains D.98.6, 98.8, 98.42, 98.51, 98.56.

98.44. Powers, Katherine A. “The ‘Moral Tale’ Is Often the Furthest from the Truth of Life.” Boston Globe 15 Feb. 1998: E2. Brief review/commentary on Modern Library edition of Sister Carrie (A97.3).

98.45. Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship 1998 (1998): 257-86. (Dreiser, pp. 265–68.)

98.46. Rhodes, Chip. “Personality, Mass Culture and Class: The Novels of Harry Leon Wilson and Theodore Dreiser.” Structures of the Jazz Age: Mass Culture, Progressive Education, and Racial Discourse in American Modernism. The Haymarket Series. London and New York: Verso, 1998. 109–39. Reprint of 96.25.

98.47. St. Jean, Shawn. “ ‘Whom the Gods Would Destroy’: ‘Pagan’ Identity and Sexuality in The ‘Genius’.” Dreiser Studies 29.1&2 (1998): 34–50.

98.48. Samuels, Nils David. “Shame and Genre in Nineteenth-Century American Narrative: A Psychological Reading of Character and Choice in James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Warner, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State U, 1998. DAI 59 (1998): 175A.

98.49. Schaffner, Isabelle Josiane. “Material and Creative Forces in the City: A Comparative Study of French and American Novels (1839–1936).” Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Riverside, 1998. DAI 59 (1999): 3444A. Includes a discussion of French and American responses to the materiality of the city, with respect to its role in molding individuals’ identities, which are discussed through a comparison of Zola’s Nana and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.

98.50. Sherman, Stuart Pratt. “The Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser.” Pizer 98.43, pp. 188–96. Reprint of 1915.78.

98.51. Sova, Dawn B. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. New York: Facts on File, 1998. 215–16. Vol. 4 of Banned Books. Ed. Ken Wachsberger. About An American Tragedy’s suppression in Boston.

98.52. Tjader, Marguerite. Love That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser. Ed. Lawrence E. Hussman. Modern American Literature: New Approaches 19. New York: Lang, 1998.

98.53. Tobin, Rachel. “Vera Dreiser, 90, Psychologist, Former Dancer” (obituary). Atlanta Journal-Constitution 21 Nov. 1998: C6.

98.54. Totten, Gary Lane. “The Eyewitness in American Specular Narrative: Empiricism, Representation, and the Gaze.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ball State U, 1998. DAI 59 (1998): 2026A. Examines A Hoosier Holiday to show how new spatial and temporal paradigms created by automotive technology affect the eyewitness (and a particular vision of America) in the American road book.

98.55. Trilling, Lionel. “Reality in America.” Pizer 98.43, pp. 239–50. Reprint of 1950.11.

98.56. Trubek, Anne. “Picturing Time: American Realism and the Problem of Perspective.” Ph.D. dissertation, Temple U, 1998. DAI 59 (1999): 3822A. “Becoming a Medium: Real Time and Realist Temporality in Sister Carrie” (thesis chapter).

98.57. Updike, John, ed. A Century of Arts and Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members. New York: Columbia UP, 1998. 125–26 passim.

98.58. Walden, Mirell L. “Liberated Women in American Fiction of the 1920s.” Ph.D. dissertation, City U of New York, 1998. DAI 59 (1998): 176A. Discusses the “punitive” treatment of sexually active female characters in An American Tragedy (among other male authors’ works), compared to a more forgiving treatment in the works of contemporary woman authors.

98.59. White, Mary Wheeling. Fighting the Current: The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1998. 66, 67, 75, 103, 112, 137–38, 140, 143–44, 168, 190–91, 194. Biography of Southern novelist Evelyn Scott, a friend and occasional correspondent of Dreiser.

98.60. Williams, William H. A. H. L. Mencken Revisited. Twayne’s United States Authors Series. 694. New York: Twayne; London: Prentice Hall, 1998. Passim. An updated edition of 1977.75.

98.61. Zender, Karl F. “Walking away from the Impossible Thing: Identity and Denial in Sister Carrie.” Studies in the Novel 30.1 (1998): 63–76.

1999

99.1. Andrews, Jay Scott. “The Emergence of Corporate Subjectivity: Literature, Imperialism, and the Transformation of American National Consciousness, 1882–1901.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Pittsburgh, 1999. DAI 60 (1999): 1127A–1128A. “Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and the Emergence of the Corporate Subject” (thesis chapter).

99.2. Auerbach, Jonathan. “Dreiser on Prohibition.” Dreiser Studies 30.2 (1999): 35–38.

99.3. Bardeleben, Renate von. “The Shock of the Ancestral Quest: Theodore Dreiser’s A Traveler at Forty and Cynthia Ozick’s The Messiah of Stockholm.” The Self at Risk in English Literatures and Other Landscapes. Honoring Brigitte Scheer-Schäzler on the Occasion of her 60th Birthday. Ed. Gudrun M. Grabher, Sonja Bahn-Coblans. Innsbruck: Inst. für Sprachwissenschaft, 1999. 95–108.

99.4. Barrineau, Nancy Warner. “Theodore Dreiser and Martin Dressler: Tales of American Dreamers.” Dreiser Studies 30.1 (1999): 33–45.

99.5. Beer, Janet. “Sister Carrie and The Awakening: The Clothed, the Unclothed, and the Woman Undone.” Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen L. Kilcup. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999. 167–83.

99.6. Black, Stephen E. Eugene O’Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999. 186–87.

99.7. Borges, Jorge Luis. Selected Non-Fictions. Ed. Eliot Weinberger. Trans. Esther Allen, Suzanne Jill Levine, and Eliot Weinberger. New York: Viking, 1999. 166–67. Contains a brief sketch of Dreiser.

99.8. Brackett, Virginia. “An American Tragedy”; “Dreiser, Theodore”; “Griffiths, Clyde.” Classic Love and Romance Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Characters, Authors and Themes. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. 7–9, 93–95, 146–47.

99.9. Brauer, Stephen Michael. “Containing the Criminal: American Crime Narratives, 1919–1941.” Ph.D. dissertation, New York U, 1999. DAI 60 (1999): 1555A. Writers examined include Dreiser, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, James Cain, and Anita Loos.

99.10. Brooks, Marty Frances. “‘Self-Made’ Women: Envisioning Feminine Upward Mobility in American Literature 1900–1930.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke U, 1999. DAI 61 (2000): 179A. “Sister Carrie: Success as Enlightenment” (thesis chapter).

99.11. Bumiller, Elisabeth. “Press Agent and Mother with Eye for Flair.” New York Times 9 Feb. 1999: B2. Profile of press agent Margaret Carson, mother of chief White House counsel Charles F. C. Ruff. Notes that Dreiser once made an unsuccessful pass at her in a clumsy manner.

99.12. Ciccone, F. Richard. Chicago and the American Century: The 100 Most Significant Chicagoans of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Contemporary, 1999. 328–30.

99.13. Delbanco, Andrew. Introduction to Sister Carrie (A99.1). New York: Modern Library, 1999.

99.14. Doherty, Thomas. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. 201.

99.15. Dore, Florence Weiler. “Literary Unspeakability and Obscenity Law: The Feminization of Identity in the Novels of Dreiser, Cather, Faulkner and Wright.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Berkeley, 1999. DAI 61 (2000): 984A.

99.16. Dos Passos, John. “Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) by John Dos Passos (1896–1970).” The Faber Book of Writers on Writers. Ed. Sean French. London and New York: Faber, 1999. 125–126. Contains an excerpt from Dos Passos’s The Best Times: An Informal Memoir (New York: New American Library, 1966).

99.17. “Dreiser, Theodore (1871–1945).” Modern American Literature. Ed. Joann Cerrito and Laura DiMauro. Farmington Hills, MI: St. James P, 1999. Vol. I: 295–98.

99.18. Edwards, Justin. “The Man with a Camera Eye: Cinematic Form and Hollywood Malediction in John Dos Passos’s The Big Money.” Literature Film Quarterly 27 (1999): 245–54. Criticizes several films written by Paramount Film Corporation screenwriters, including An American Tragedy.

99.19. Elder, Shane, Frederic E. Rusch, and Stephen C. Brennan. “A Dreiser Checklist, 1991.” Dreiser Studies 30.2 (1999): 39–55.

99.20. Emmert, Scott D. “Dreiser’s Metaphor: The Stoic and Cowperwood’s Tomb.” Dreiser Studies 30.1 (1999): 21–34.

99.21. Gerber, Philip. “An American Document: Sister Carrie Revisited.” Dreiser Studies 30.2 (1999): 3–23.

99.22. ———. “Dreiser, Theodore [Herman].” Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Steven R. Serafin and Alfred Bendixen. New York: Continuum, 1999. 287–99.

99.23. Gertzman, Jay A. Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920–1940. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1999. 141.

99.24. Gleason, William A. The Leisure Ethic: Work and Play in American Literature, 1840–1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999. 272–87. Analyzes works of American literature within the context of concurrently developing theories of productive leisure between 1840 and 1940. Uses An American Tragedy to discuss ambiguities in Dreiser’s views on play reform.

99.25. Grunwald, Lisa, and Stephen J. Adler, eds. Letters of the Century: America 1900–1999. New York: Random, 1999. 161. Contains 19 Jan. 1923 letter from Carl Van Vechten to Dreiser.

99.26. Haberski, Raymond James, Jr. “Movies into Art: Amusements to Auteurs, 1909–1963.” Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio U, 1999. DAI 60 (1999): 1292A. “Movies, Theodore Dreiser, and the Radical Critique” (thesis chapter).

99.27. Hardwick, Elizabeth. American Fictions. New York: Modern Library, 1999. xvii, 34–35, 153–55, 202. Contains portions of a previously published book, Seduction and Betrayal (see 1974).

99.28. Hoover, Amanda Petrona. “Magic Seeker: Liminal Consciousness and the Literary Imagination.” Master’s thesis, Southeastern Louisiana U, 1999. Authors discussed are Anne Ward Radcliffe, George Eliot, J. M. Coetzee, and Dreiser (Sister Carrie).

99.29. Hutchisson, James M., and Stephen R. Pastore. “Sinclair Lewis and Theodore Dreiser: New Letters and a Reexamination of Their Relationship.” American Literary Realism 32.1 (1999): 69–81. Note: coauthor Hutchisson has since warned that new information calls into question the authenticity and provenance of the letters. See Dreiser Studies 32.1 (2001): 71.

99.30. Jones, Gavin. “ ‘Those Gossamer Threads of Thought’: The Supernatural Naturalism of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Essays in Arts and Sciences 28 (1999): 69–90.

99.31. Kratzke, Peter. “ ‘Sometimes, Bad Is Bad’: Teaching Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Typhoon’ and the American Literary Canon.” Short Stories in the Classroom. Ed. Carole L. Hamilton and Peter Kratzke. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999. 167–71.

99.32. Kroeger, Brooke. Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst. New York: Random, 1999. 72–73, 186–87 passim.

99.33. Levine, Gary Martin. “The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864–1939.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Iowa, 1999. DAI 60 (2000): 2910A. “Populist Naturalism: The ‘Natural’ Markets and ‘Unnatural’ Jews of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Mark Twain” (thesis chapter).

99.34. Limsky, Drew. “Clinton’s Flaws: The Revenge of Theodore Dreiser.” Los Angeles Times 6 June 1999: 2.

99.35. Loranger, Carol S., and Dennis Loranger. “Collaborating on ‘The Banks of the Wabash’: A Brief History of an Interdisciplinary Debate, Some New Evidence, and a Reflexive Consideration of Turf and Ownership.” Dreiser Studies 30.1 (1999): 3–20.

99.36. Loving, Jerome. Review of Love That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser, by Marguerite Tjader (98.53). Resources for American Literary Study 25.2 (1999): 268–70.

99.37. ———. Review of Twelve Men (A98.4) and Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth (A98.1). Dreiser Studies 30.1 (1999): 46–48.

99.38. McAleer, John J. “An American Tragedy and In Cold Blood: Turning Case History into Art.” The Critical Response to Truman Capote. Ed. Joseph J. Waldmeir and John C. Waldmeir. Critical Responses in Arts and Letters 32. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999. 205–19. Reprint of 1972.38.

99.39. McCarron, Bill. “Warren, Dreiser, Virgil, Tacitus.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 29.5 (1999): 2–3.

99.40. Perkins, Priscilla. “Self-Generation in a Post-Eugenic Utopia: Dreiser’s Conception of the ‘Matronized’ Genius.” American Literary Realism 32.1 (1999): 12–34.

99.41. Petersen, James R. The Century of Sex: Playboy’s History of the Sexual Revolution, 1900–1989. Ed. Hugh M. Hefner. New York: Grove, 1999. 8, 77–78, 89–90.

99.42. Pizer, Donald. “The Logic of My Life and Work: Another Look at Dreiser’s July 20, 1945, Letter to William Z. Foster.” Dreiser Studies 30.2 (1999): 24–34.

99.43. ———. “The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” American Literary Realism 32.1 (1999): 1–11.

99.44. Preston, Claire. “Ladies Prefer Bonds: Edith Wharton, Theodore Dreiser, and the Money Novel.” Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen L. Kilcup. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999. 184–201.

99.45. Prichard, William H. “One Writer’s Beginnings: Dreiser’s Autobiography.” Washington Times 7 Feb. 1999: B8. Review of Dawn: An Autobiography of Early Youth (A98.1).

99.46. “Professor Douglas Brinkley from the University of New Orleans Discusses Theodore Dreiser’s Book Hoosier Holiday” [interview]. All Things Considered. Narrated by Jacki Lyden. National Public Radio, Washington, D.C. 26 June 1999.

99.47. Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship 1999 (1999): 289-311. (Dreiser, pp. 295–97).

99.48. Regnery, Henry. “To Edit or Not To Edit: The Ordeal of Theodore Dreiser.” Perfect Sowing: Reflections of a Bookman. Ed. Jeffrey O. Nelson. Wilmington, DE: ISI, 1999. 294–311.

99.49. Reynolds, John William. “The Genesis and Compositional History of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Connecticut, 1999. DAI 60 (1999): 1136A.

99.50. Riggio, Thomas P. “Dreiser, Theodore.” American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Vol. 6: 897–901.

99.51. St. Jean, Amy Ujvari. “ ‘Blind Strivings of the Human Heart’: Existential Feminism in Sister Carrie.” Simone de Beauvoir Studies 16 (1999–2000): 135–44.

99.52. St. Jean, Shawn. “Mythology, Religion, and Intertextuality in Theodore Dreiser’s The Bulwark.” Christianity and Literature 48.3 (1999): 275–93.

99.53. ———. “ ‘Pagan’ Dreiser: Greek Mythos and the American Novelist.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State U, 1999. DAI 60 (2000): 3367A.

99.54. Schechter, Harold. “When Crime Becomes Art.” New York Times 1 July 1999: 19. Notes controversy over film Summer of Sam directed by Spike Lee and what critics of the entertainment industry perceive as the industry’s appetite for violence. Argues that no subject should be off limits for the artist, using example of Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.

99.55. Sheets, Anna J., ed. Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Vol. 30. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 1999. 106–60.

99.56. Smith, Shawn Michelle. “Reconfiguring a Masculine Gaze.” American Archives: Gender, Race, and Class in Visual Culture. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1999. 206–21. Asserts that Sister Carrie “offers an alternative means of understanding both the position and the relative power of women as commodity in consumer culture, a different way of looking at the links between gender and ‘conspicuous consumption.’ ”

99.57. Sprows, Sandra Katherine. “Identity Practices and Border Negotiations: Investigating the Question of Agency in Twentieth Century American Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, State U of New York at Stony Brook, 1999. DAI 61 (2000): 187A. “The Identity Gap and the American Dream in Sister Carrie and The Education of Henry Adams” (thesis chapter).

99.58. Steiner, J. E. Review of Twelve Men (A98.4). Choice 36.6 (Feb. 1999): 1064.

99.59. Updike, John. “Not Quite Adult.” More Matter: Essays and Criticism. New York: Knopf, 1999. 509–15. Reprint of 91.79.

99.60. Vanausdall, Jeanette. Pride and Protest: The Novel in Indiana. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1999. 72–81 passim.

99.61. Von Rosk, Nancy Helen. “Domestic Visions and Shifting Identifies: The Urban Novel and the Rise of a Consumer Culture in America, 1852–1925.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of New Hampshire, 1999. DAI 60 (1999): 1138A. “Deciphering the Spectacle and Dismantling the Home: The New Public Space and Urban Consciousness in Sister Carrie” (thesis chapter).

99.62. Zayani, Mohamed. Reading the Symptom: Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and the Dynamics of Capitalism. Modern American Literature: New Approaches 15. New York: Lang, 1999.