D r e i s e r      S t u d i e s

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 2002 through 2003. 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 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. Publications by or about Dreiser (including translations of his works) in languages other than English have not been cited. They will be covered in a future update.

I thank Thomas Bednarz, Choi Chatterjee, Uwe Juras, Karine Madsen, Geoffrey O’Brien, Ada Øye, Dorothy Rompalske, and Klaus Schmidt for their responses to inquiries.

Eaton, Mark A. “Moving Pictures and Spectacular Criminality in An American Tragedy and Native Son.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2000): 399–426.

Loving, Jerome. “Notes from the Underground of Sister Carrie.” Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 2001. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2002. 360–66.

 

Writings by Theodore Dreiser

A2002.1. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. E-book. New York: RosettaBooks, 2002.

A2003.1. Dreiser, Theodore. An American Tragedy. Ed. Thomas P. Riggio. New York: Library of America, 2003.

D2002.1. Dreiser, Theodore. “The First Three Paragraphs of Sister Carrie as They Appear in the English Originals and in Translation.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 70–75.

D2002.2. ———. “Sherwood Anderson, 1876–1941.” Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies and Remembrances of American Writers. Ed. Steven Gilbar and Dean Stewart. Boston: David R. Godine, 2002. 77–78. Reprint of C41-3.

D2002.3. Jackson, Kenneth T., and David S. Dunbar, eds. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. New York: Columbia UP, 2002. 536–40. Contains “The City of My Dreams” and “The City Awakes” from Dreiser’s The Color of a Great City (A23-1).

D2003.1. Dreiser, Theodore. “Interview with P. D. Armour.” The Jungle: An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Backgrounds, Criticism, by Upton Sinclair. Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Clare Virginia Eby. New York: Norton, 2003. 357–62. Reprint of C98-49.

D2003.2. ———. “Nigger Jeff.” Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond. Ed. Anne P. Rice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2003. 151–70. See also Introduction (8–9) and bibliographical headnote (151), where circumstances of story’s composition and publication are discussed.

D2003.3. ———. Theodore Dreiser’s Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897–1902. Ed. Yoshinobu Hakutani. Newark, DE: U of Delaware P, 2003. Reprint of C97-14, C97-16, C98-2, C98-16, C98-18, C98-27, C98-30, C98-31, C98-32, C98-53, C98-59, C99-17, C99-22, C99-28, C99-36, C99-38, C99-43, C99-49, C00-2, C00-7, C00-8, C00-9, C00-10, C00-11, C00-13, C00-14, C01-1, C01-2, C01-3, C01-6, C02-1, C02-3, C02-6.

D2003.4. Watts, Michael, ed. The Literary Book of Economics: Including Readings from Literature and Drama on Economic Concepts, Issues, and Themes. Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003. 64–69. Contains excerpts from Sister Carrie.

2002.1. “An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser (United States, 1925).” The Social Impact of the Novel: A Reference Guide. Ed. Claudia Durst Johnson and Vernon Johnson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 281–82.

2002.2. Arthur, Anthony. “The Slap Heard ’Round the World: Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser, and the Nobel Prize.” Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels—from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe. New York: St. Martin’s, 2002. 49–75.

2002.3. Bardeleben, Renate von. “Same or Other: Reading the German-Language Translation of Sister Carrie.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 33–46.

2002.4. Barton, John Cyril. “An American Travesty: Capital Punishment and the Criminal Justice System in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” REAL: Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 18 (2002): 357–84.

2002.5. Bates, Laura Raidonis. “Play Review: Sister Carrie at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 76–81.

2002.6. Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age. 2nd ed. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2002. 19, 36–40, 86–87, 109–110, 185–87, 192–95.

2002.7. Brennan, Stephen C. “ ‘Are not cat men afraid of mothers?’ Self-Creation in Dawn.” Dreiser Studies 33.2 (2002): 68–102.

2002.8. Bucci, Richard. Review of Twelve Men (A98.3). TEXT 12 (2002): 372–80.

2002.9. Campbell, Donna M. “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2000. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002. 273–305. (Dreiser, pp. 280–85.)

2002.10. Chrystal, Sandra J. “Dreiser, Theodore (1871-1945).” Encyclopedia of Literature and Science. Ed. Pamela Gossin. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 114 passim. Includes a brief, one-paragraph entry on Dreiser and in other entries cites his works or mentions the influence of scientific concepts on Dreiser as well as other naturalist writers.

2002.11. Cole, Jean Lee. The Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton: Redefining Ethnicity and Authenticity. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2002. 75–76. Contrasts the helplessness and passivity exhibited by Carrie Meeber and Jennie Gerhardt with characters in novels of the Canadian-born writer Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton Reeve).

2002.12. Doherty, Thomas. “An American Tragedy: The Shotgun Wedding of Moscow and Hollywood.” History Today 52.5 (2002): 31–7.

2002.13. Duke, David C. Writers and Miners: Activism and Imagery in America. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 2002. 28–34, 104, 110–111, 243n. Discusses the activities of the Dreiser-led committee that investigated miners’ labor conditions in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Also discusses Jo Carson’s depiction of Dreiser in her play A Preacher with a Horse to Ride (1990).

2002.14. Gwinn, Mary Ann. “Literature For Lazing.” Seattle Times 24 June 2002: E1. “More than 100 years ago Dreiser understood exactly what the rootlessness and superficiality of the modern world would do to our souls, and in ‘Sister Carrie’ he presents it all unflinchingly. Critics say Dreiser is a terrible prose writer. Maybe so. But he’s a great storyteller.”

2002.15. Hakutani, Yoshinobu. “Introduction. Special Section: Sister Carrie in Translation.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 27–32.

2002.16. Heffernan, Virginia Page. “The Threat of American Life: Literary Defensiveness at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard U, 2002. DAI 63.1 (2002): 187A. Examines how major themes of American monetary policy pervade the work of Dreiser, Frank Norris, Henry James, William James, and William Dean Howells. “The Threat of Inflation in Sister Carrie” (thesis chapter).

2002.17. Hill, Kerry Glynn. “Mencken’s Nietzsche: An Examination of the Origins and Effects of the American Critic’s Interpretation of the German Philosopher’s Writings.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Colorado, 2002. DAI 63.2 (2002): 726A. Contains a lengthy section entitled “The Influence of Mencken’s Nietzsche on the Works of Theodore Dreiser.”

2002.18. Jaeckle, Jeff. “Dreiser’s Universe of Imbalance in Sister Carrie.” Dreiser Studies 33.2 (2002): 3–20.

2002.19. Jiang, Daochao. “Sister Carrie and the Chinese Mentality.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 47–55.

2002.20. Johnson, Laura K. “Courting Justice: Marriage, Law, and the American Novel, 1890–1925.” Ph.D. dissertation, Boston U, 2002. DAI 62.5 (2001): 1834A. “Theodore Dreiser and Marital Fraud” (thesis chapter).

2002.21. Kusmer, Kenneth L. Down and Out, on the Road: The Homeless in American History. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 174–75. Discusses Sister Carrie’s Hurstwood as an example of the literary figure of the tramp who is newly sunk into poverty on account of unemployment. Mentions the circumstances under which Dreiser invented Hurstwood.

2002.22. Lingeman, Richard. Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street. New York: Random, 2002. 40, 45, 52, 320–22, 331–32, 353–55, 366–69, 476.

2002.23. Markov, Nina. “Reading and the Material Girl: Educating Sister Carrie.” Critical Sense 10.1 (2002): 19–58.

2002.24. Mencken, H. L. H. L. Mencken on American Literature. Ed. S. T. Joshi. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2002. 39–73 passim. Reprints reviews of Dreiser’s works by Mencken previously cited as 1911.40, 1912.73, 1914.73, 1915.53, 1916.65, 1926.100.

2002.25. Minter, David. “A Cultural History of the Modern American Novel.” The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume 6: Prose Writing, 1910–1950. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. 5, 26–7, 28, 29–33, 83–87, 113, 142. See also David Minter, A Cultural History of the American Novel: Henry James to William Faulkner (1994.14).

2002.26. Mulligan, Roark. “Dreiser’s Private Library.” Dreiser Studies 33.2 (2002): 40–67.

2002.27. Murayama, Kiyohiko. “The Hidden Polemics in Sister Carrie.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 56–63.

2002.28 Murphy, Brenda. “The ‘Genius’ as Iceman: Eugene O’Neill’s Portrayal of Theodore Dreiser.” American Literary Realism 34.2 (2002): 135–45.

2002.29. Newlin, Keith. “The International Theodore Dreiser Society.” The Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 2001. Ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 445–47.

2002.30. Øye, Ada Bråthen. “Between Two Worlds: The Evolution of the New Woman in American Fiction.” Master’s thesis, U of Oslo, Norway, 2002. Focuses on the evolution of the New Woman in American literature around 1900, using Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening and Carrie Meeber in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie as representatives for the white New Woman and Amy Boldin in Jessie Redmond Fauset’s novella “When the Sleeper Wakes” and Rachel Loving in Anglina Weld Grimké’s play Rachel as examples of African-American New Woman.

2002.31. Patterson, Yolanda Astarita. “Caroline Meeber: A Liberated Manon Lescaut?” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 64–69.

2002.32. Perry, George. “Dramatic Twists on Broadway: Location Location Location.” Sunday Times (London, England) 24 Feb. 2002: 6. States that Dreiser wrote An American Tragedy while living in The Ansonia, a residential hotel in Manhattan.

2002.33. Pizer, Donald. American Literary Naturalism: Recent and Uncollected Essays. Bethesda, MD: Academica, 2002. Includes “Sister Carrie: The Pennsylvania Edition,” 121–28 (1982.42); “Sister Carrie and the Problem of American Literary Naturalism,” 129–41 (1999.43); and “ ‘True Art Speaks Plainly’: Theodore Dreiser and the Late Nineteenth-Century Debate over Realism and Naturalism,” 143–56 (1996.23).

2002.34. Rolfe, Lionel. Literary LA: Expanded from the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and Now. Los Angeles: California Classics, 2002. 117–18. Briefly describes Dreiser’s life when he resided in Los Angeles. First published as Literary LA (San Francisco: Chronicle, 1981).

2002.35. Rosenbaum, Emily. “Performance Anxiety in Sister Carrie: Theodore Dreiser, the Ashcan School, and Theater Audiences.” Dreiser Studies 33.1 (2002): 3–26.

2002.36. Runyon, Randolph Paul. “A Problem in Spatial Composition: On the Order of Or Else.” Southern Review 38.4 (2002): 861–79. An essay about Robert Penn Warren’s Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968–1974. Compares Warren’s poem “Homage to Theodore Dreiser” with two other poems in the collection, “Rattlesnake Country” and “Flaubert in Egypt.”

2002.37. Ruotolo, Cristina. “ ‘Whence the Song’: Voice and Audience in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” American Literary Realism 35.1 (2002): 39–58.

2002.38. Schweighauser, Philipp. “The Soundscapes of American Realist Fiction.” Philologie im Netz 19 (2002): 55–78. Explores the acoustic geographies of texts by Dreiser (Sister Carrie), Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Rebecca Harding Davis, and William Dean Howells.

2002.39. ———. “ ‘You Must Make Less Noise in Here, Mister Schouler’: Acoustic Profiling in American Realism.” Studies in American Fiction 30.1 (2002): 85–102. Uses the theories of Pierre Bourdieu to discuss how the dialect of immigrants and foreign-sounding speech identify the social status and personality of various characters in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, Norris’s McTeague, and Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes.

2002.40. Seguin, Robert. Review of Theodore Dreiser: Art Music, and Literature, 1897–1902 (D2003.3). Dreiser Studies 33.2 (2002): 103–105.

2002.41. Senatore, Carolyn. “Women as the ‘Other’ in Emile Zola’s Nana and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, College of Staten Island, 2002.

2002.42. Sollors, Werner. “Ethnic Modernism.” The Cambridge History of American Literature. Volume 6: Prose Writing, 1910–1950. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. 401. Comments on Stuart P. Sherman’s attack on Dreiser in 1915 for “barbaric naturalism” and notes Sherman’s implication that Dreiser’s ethnic background made him a less “American” or “mainstream” writer.

2002.43. Tabor-Hann, Kellie E. “Naturalist Domesticity, Domestic Naturalism: Outside, Inside, and Floating Among the Fictional Homes of Dreiser, Norris, and London.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Maryland, 2002. DAI 64.11 (2004): 4053A.

2002.44. Teachout, Terry. The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 91–97, 102–106, 127–30, 223–24 passim.

2002.45. Totten, Gary. “An Ordinary Tourist: Cultural Vision and Narrative Form in Theodore Dreiser’s A Traveler at Forty.” Dreiser Studies 33.2 (2002): 21–39.

2002.46. Vasey, Margaret Isabella. “Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt: Theodore Dreiser’s Portraits of Enduring Woman.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State U, 2002. DAI 63.6 (2002): 2246A.

2002.47. Walcutt, Charles Child, updated by George Perkins. “Dreiser, Theodore [Herman Albert] (1871–1945).” HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, Second Edition. Ed. George Perkins, Barbara Perkins, and Phillip Leininger. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. 274–76. Formerly published in 1991 as Benét’s Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature.

2002.48. Wald, Alan M. Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2002. 51, 77, 98, 353n27.

2002.49. Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910–1960. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002. 297–303.

2002.50. Wolman, William, and Anne Colamosca. The Great 401(k) Hoax: Why Your Family’s Financial Security Is at Risk, and What You Can Do About It. Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2002. 73–74. Comments on trenchant criticisms made by Dreiser in the 1920s of the economic infrastructure in the United States. “Dreiser . . . acted as an invaluable and realistic literary bridge—from the ‘feel-good’ 1920s to an America reeling under the depression.”

2003.1. Amrane, Nadjia. “Theodore Dreiser’s Relevance to the Modern Moslem World.” Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 44–56.

2003.2. Arnold, Gary. “Stevens’ Son Lauds ‘Shane’ at Silver.” Washington Times 17 Oct. 2003: D08. Mentions that George Stevens Jr., son of the director of A Place in the Sun, while in high school was employed as a reader for Paramount, in which capacity his first assignment was to “break down,” or prepare a summary of the characters and plot of, Dreiser’s An American Tragedy for the updated movie version of the novel.

2003.3. Ashton, Susanna. Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920. New York and Houndmills, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. 97. Notes that “The Gold Mine,” a play by Brander Matthews and George Jessop, sparks Carrie Meeber’s first interest in the theater. “Dreiser’s use of Matthews and Jessop’s play was but a passing reference in Sister Carrie, but it spoke volumes. Carrie’s appreciation for ‘A Gold Mine’ was a testament to her own naiveté and intellectual limitations.”

2003.4. Brittan, Lorna K. M. “Pressured Identities: American Individualism in the Age of the Crowd.” Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton U, 2003. DAI 64.2 (2003): 498A. Explores the radical reconception of American individualism by major realist writers at the beginning of the twentieth century. “ ‘As yet more drawn than she drew’: Sister Carrie’s Object Lessons” (thesis chapter).

2003.5. Brown, Bill. A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. 33–34. Compares the title character of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and the lead character in Zola’s novel Au Bonheur des Dames, noting the effect retail objects have on Carrie Meeber and how they represent a source for her of animation and individuation.

2003.6. Brownell, Joseph W., and Patricia W. Enos. Adirondack Tragedy: The Gillette Murder Case of 1906. 3rd ed. Utica, NY: Nicholas K. Burns, 2003.

2003.7. Cain, William E. “Dreiser’s Monster and Alter Ego, Driven by Desire.” Boston Globe 20 July 2003: D8. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1).

2003.8. ———. “Intellectuals, Cultural Critics, Men and Women of Letters.” The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 5, Poetry and Criticism 1900–1950. Ed. Sacvan Bercovitch. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. 459–60. Discusses H. L. Mencken’s role, as critic and essayist, in preparing the way for Dreiser, defending Dreiser the artist, and aiding his development as a novelist.

2003.9. Campbell, Donna M. “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual, 2001. Ed. Gary Scharnhorst. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2003. 305–42. (Dreiser, pp. 311–15.)

2003.10. Capo, Beth Widmaier. “Inserting the Diaphragm In(to) Modern American Fiction: Mary McCarthy, Philip Roth, and the Literature of Contraception.” Journal of American Culture 26.1 (2003): 111–23. Notes that Dreiser was a supporter of the birth control movement and observes that he “implicitly argues for birth control” in Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and An American Tragedy. Observes that censorship affected his treatment of the subject and that an explicit reference to contraceptive devices was edited out of the original draft of Jennie Gerhardt.

2003.11. Crisp, Constance June. “Revisions Restored: Textual Restoration in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, Georgia Southern U, 2003.

2003.12. David-Fox, Michael. “The Fellow Travelers Revisited: The ‘Cultured West’ through Soviet Eyes.” Journal of Modern History 75.2 (2003): 300–35. Discusses Dreiser’s visit to the Soviet Union in 1927–28 and his views (as stated in Dreiser Looks at Russia) examined from several angles: his association of Russia and the USSR with Asianness and Asiatic stereotypes; his perception of American economic superiority vis-à-vis Russian backwardness; his “frankly racial and national condemnation of the Slavic or Russian ‘temperament’”; his tendency to generalize about the Soviet experiment based on the particulars of his own experiences as a traveler; etc.

2003.13. Davies, Jude. ‘Gender, Class, and Visibility in An American Tragedy, the Symbolic Drawings of Hubert Davis, and A Place in the Sun.” Dreiser Studies 34.1 (2003): 3–34.

2003.14. Denby, David. “The Cost of Desire.” New Yorker 79.9 (21 & 28 Apr. 2003): 178–84. Review-essay of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1).

2003.15. Donovan, Nancy McIlvaine. “Susan Smith: An ‘American Tragedy’ Narrative Retold.” Dreiser Studies 34:1 (2003): 58–65.

2003.16. Dos Passos, John. Travel Books and Other Writings 1916–1941. New York: Library of America, 2003. 383, 385. Contains brief references to Dreiser in “Harlan County Sunset” (reprint of 1931.29).

2003.17. Dunleavy, Linda. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1). Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 123–24.

2003.18. Duvall, John Michael. “Processes of Elimination: Waste and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Maryland, 2003. DAI 64.6 (2003): 2083A. Examines how questions of waste are examined in naturalist narratives by Dreiser, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair and suggests new ways of engaging with naturalism’s keen interest in consumable objects and consumable people. “(F)utility and Dinginess: Wasting and Being Wasted in Wharton’s House of Mirth and Dreiser’s Sister Carrie” (thesis chapter).

2003.19. Gerber, Philip. “Whither Naturalism?” Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Tennessee Studies in Literature 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 367–89. Comments on Dreiser’s central place in the development of a naturalistic ethos, with particular reference to Sister Carrie. Discusses how mechanistic theories of existence, particularly Dreiser’s concept of “chemism,” profoundly influenced his work and how these theories relate to current developments in biological science.

2003.20. Grauke, Kevin Ross. “Witness to Self-Destruction: Suicide and Class in Post-Bellum American Realist Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation, State U of New York at Buffalo, 2003. DAI 64.8 (2004): 2888A. Examines representations of suicide in Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, Crane’s Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, and Wharton’s Ethan Frome.

2003.21. Hapke, Laura. “No Green Card Needed: Dreiserian Naturalism and Proletarian Female Whiteness.” Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Tennessee Studies in Literature 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 128–43.

2003.22. Harris, Luther S. Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003. 197. Mentions, in a section on the Provincetown Players, that Dreiser’s play The Hand of the Potter bombed, losing money and alienating the theater company’s supporters.

2003.23. Hart, Jeffrey. “Dreiser in 1925.” The New Criterion 21.10 (2003): 26–31.

2003.24. Henderson, Clayton W. On the Banks of the Wabash: The Life and Music of Paul Dresser. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2003. passim.

2003.25. Hoeller, Hildegarde. “Herland and Hisland: Illness and ‘Health’ in the Writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Theodore Dreiser.” Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 24–43.

2003.26. Hogue, Bev. “Forgotten Frontier: Literature of the Old Northwest.” A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 241. “Dreiser exults in the energy of cities like Cleveland and Chicago, but depicts them as grinding down the wills of weak characters and strengthening the ruthless; Dreiser may create hidden refuges of pastoral delight within the heart of this urban wasteland, but the pastoral is squeezed into insignificance by the city’s irrepressible growth.”

2003.27. Hutchisson, James. “Dreiser Treads the Boards.” TEXT 15 (2003): 410–18. Review of The Collected Plays of Theodore Dreiser (AA2000.1).

2003.28. Juras, Uwe. “The ‘Culture of Personality’ and Its Representations in the American Novel: A Transdisciplinary Analysis Spotlighting the Works of Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Ph.D. dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg U, Mainz, Germany, 2003.

2003.29. Kazin, Alfred. “Two Evaluations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser.” Alfred Kazin’s America: Critical and Personal Writings. Ed. Ted Solotaroff. New York: HarperCollins, 2003: 65–80. Reprint of 1940.11 and 1942.13.

2003.30. Koeppel, Fredric. “Tragedy Flawed, But Still Classic.” The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) 25 May 2003: F2. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1).

2003.31. Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. New York: Crown, 2003. 305–306, 382. Briefly discusses Dreiser’s trip as a reporter to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and his romance with Sara Osborne White.

2003.32. Lears, Jackson. Something for Nothing: Luck in America. New York: Viking, 2003. 186. Comments on how the centrality of chance in Sister Carrie shapes human fate.

2003.33. Lee, James Kyung-Jin. “The City as Region.” A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Ed. Charles L. Crow. Malden, MA, and Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. 139. Briefly discusses how Dreiser’s “equation inevitable,” “borrowed extensively from Herbert Spencer’s recalibration of Darwin’s theory of evolution,” is used in Sister Carrie and relies on a “scientific, zero-sum deus ex machina: in order for Carrie to rise in wealth and ambition, Hurstwood must fall.”

2003.34. Levine, Gary Martin. “Populist Naturalism: The ‘Natural’ Markets and ‘Unnatural’ Jews of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Mark Twain.” The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864–1939. New York: Routledge, 2003. 67–80. Originally presented as the author’s dissertation (1999.33).

2003.35. Lingeman, Richard. “Theodore Dreiser.” American Rebels. Ed. Jack Newfield. New York: Nation, 2003. 165–71.

2003.36. Loving, Jerome. “Theodore Dreiser, 1871–1945.” American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Retrospective Supplement II (James Baldwin to Nathanael West). Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner’s, 2003. 93–110.

2003.37. Madsen, Karine. “A Study of the Narrator’s Presence in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie: Voice, Function and Metaphoric Language.” Master’s thesis, U of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, 2003.

2003.38. Marquis, Margaret. “The Female Body, Work, and Reproduction in Deland, Cather, and Dreiser.” Women’s Studies 32.8 (2003): 979–1000.

2003.39. Meurer, Robin. “Based on a Novel by Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie on the Screen.” Master’s thesis, Graz U, Graz, Austria, 2003.

2003.40. Neubauer, Gregory M. Review of Theodore Dreiser’s Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897–1902 (D2003.3). Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 114–16.

2003.41. Newlin, Keith, ed. A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.

2003.42. Nobel, Philip. “Peaceable Kingdom: Celebrating Craftsmanship and Nature in New York.” Architectural Digest 60.6 (2003): 224–31, 256. Portrays renovation of Iroki, Dreiser’s former home and estate in Westchester County, New York, by the current owners, Michael and Judy Steinhardt.

2003.43. O’Brien, Geoffrey. “His Place in the Sun.” Bookforum 10.2 (2003): 36. Discusses Dreiser’s style. “To read Dreiser is to become aware of a flat declamatory tone apparently unconcerned with niceties of style. He has been described as the kind of writer who triumphs over his own deficiencies of style, and as a writer who rummages through his characters’ thoughts with the impatient thoroughness of a child left alone to explore the contents of an attic.”

2003.44. Pizer, Donald. “Is American Literary Naturalism Dead? A Further Inquiry.” Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Tennessee Studies in Literature 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 390–404. Compares works by the contemporary naturalist writers Raymond Carver, Paul Auster, and Don DeLillo to Sister Carrie, Dreiser’s story “The Second Choice,” and two of his sketches, “The Loneliness of the City” (C05-10) and “The Man on the Sidewalk” (C09-13).

2003.45. Pritchard, William H. “Theodore Dreiser’s Behemoth: Reissuing Novel That Once Was a Bestseller.” Washington Times 9 Mar. 2003: B8. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1).

2003.46. Puente, David Loren. “Education in Irony: United States ‘Literacy Crisis’ and the Literature of American Bildung.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Irvine, 2003. DAI 63.11 (2003): 359A. Traces historical shifts in the way educational development, intellectual ability, and pedagogic work were imagined by Americans between the Civil War and World War I, focusing on works by Henry James, Dreiser, James Weldon Johnson, and Willa Cather. “Naturalist Bildung: Genius and Stupidity in Sister Carrie” (thesis chapter).

2003.47. Rasmussen, R. Kent, and R. Baird Shuman, eds. Cyclopedia of Literary Places. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem P, 2003. I: 42–43, 155–56, 408, 439–40; II: 591–92; III: 1070–71, 1163–64. Contains entries on An American Tragedy, The Bulwark, The Financier, The “Genius,” Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie, and The Titan.

2003.48. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1). Kirkus Reviews 71.2 (2003): 113.

2003.49. Rogers, Michael. Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1). Library Journal 128.4 (1 March 2003): 124.

2003.50. Rompalske, Dorothy. “The Deadly Affair of Grace Brown and Chester Gillette.” Biography Oct. 2003: 20–21.

2003.51. Ryan, James Emmett. “Imaginary Friends: Representing Quakers in Early American Fiction.” Studies in American Fiction 31.2 (2003): 191–220. Discusses Dreiser’s The Bulwark, which “stands near the conclusion of a long tradition of using Quakers as exemplary figures in American fiction.”

2003.52. See, Mandy. “ ‘It Was Written That We Meet’: The Collaborative Friendship of Theodore Dreiser and George Douglas.” Dreiser Studies 34.1 (2003): 35–57.

2003.53. “Short Story E No. 193.” Moscow News 5 Feb. 2003: 9. Reprints Robert Benchley’s spoof (1927.4) of An American Tragedy in both the original English and Russian translation, followed by comments (in English) on Dreiser’s style based on an excerpt from the opening chapter of An American Tragedy: “if Dreiser's style was massively clumsy and his diction often trite, he understood supremely well the psychology of the outsider in the rising American cities, his loneliness, his distress, and the cost exacted of him for the realization of his dreams.”

2003.54. Smith, Roger W. “A Dreiser Checklist, 1998–1999.” Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 57–70.

2003.55. ———. “Overlooked Items in Previous Dreiser Checklists.” Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 71–104.

2003.56. ———. “Review Essay: Dreiser on the Web.” Dreiser Studies, 34.1 (2003): 66–91.

2003.57. Van Vechten, Carl. The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922–1930. Ed. Bruce Kellner. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2003. 21–22, 37, 49, 54, 79, 116, 122, 157, 203, 233, 306.

2003.58. Vogt, Melissa. “Theodore Dreiser Honored as Journalist.” Tribune Star (Terre Haute, IN) 13 April 2003. Notes Dreiser’s induction into Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.

2003.59. Volkova, Olga. “A Socialist Realist Perspective on Sister Carrie.” Dreiser Studies 34.2 (2003): 3–23.

2003.60. Yardley, Jonathan. “A Sprawling Tale of Errant Ambition Makes for a Dubious Entry in the Library of America.” Review of Library of America edition of An American Tragedy (A2003.1). Washington Post Book World. 9 March 2003: T02.

2003.61. Zayani, Mohamed. “From Determinism to Indeterminacy: Chaos Theory, Systems Theory, and the Discourse of Naturalism.” Twisted from the Ordinary: Essays on American Literary Naturalism. Ed. Mary E. Papke. Tennessee Studies in Literature 40. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 344–66. Argues that The Financier and Sister Carrie resist conventional one-dimensional deterministic readings.