D r e i s e r      S t u d i e s

Winter 2005

Dreiser’s “Other Self”: The Life of Arthur Henry, 

by Maggie Walker and Mark Walker

Reviewed by Roger W. Smith

Mencken: The American Iconoclast, 

by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers

Reviewed by Frederick Betz

Evolution and “the Sex Problem”: American Narratives 

during the Eclipse of Darwinism, by Bert Bender

Reviewed by Chris L. Massey

Chicago Dreaming: Midwesterners and the City, 1871–1919, 

by Timothy B. Spears

Reviewed by James Guthrie

A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature, 

by Bill Brown

Reviewed by Dan Colson

Frank Norris, A Life, 

by Joseph R. McElrath Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler

Reviewed by Keith Newlin

Realism and Naturalism: The Novel in an Age of Transition, 

by Richard Lehan

Reviewed by Donna M. Campbell