Dreiser on the Web

by Roger W. Smith

4. E-Texts

a. Dreiser’s Works

[For e-text editions of the 1900 and 1981 editions of Sister Carrie, see 1. Web Sites Dedicated to Dreiser: DreiserWebSource.]

“The Church and Wealth In America” (Chapter 14 of Tragic America). The Secular Web Library.

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/theodore_dreiser/church_and_wealth_in_america.html .

The Financier. Project Gutenberg, 1999. Etext #1840.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi-bin/sdb/t9.cgi . While not specifically identified, the site provides e-text of the later, 1927 edition published by Boni & Liveright.

“Ida Hauchawout” (from A Gallery of Women, vol. II). Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DreIdah.html .

“The Mighty Burke.” Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DreMigh.html .

Sister Carrie. Project Gutenberg, 1995. Etext #233.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi-bin/sdb/t9.cgi . While not specifically identified, the site provides e-text of the first, 1900 edition published by Doubleday, Page, & Co.

Sister Carrie. University of Virginia Hypertext Project.

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DREISER/carrie.html . While not specifically identified, the site provides e-text of the first, 1900 edition published by Doubleday, Page, & Co.

The Titan. Project Gutenberg, 2003. Etext #3629.

http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi-bin/sdb/t9.cgi .

b. Other

Fort, Charles. The Book of the Damned. (New York: Horace Liveright, 1919).

 http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/damned/ .

Pluckerbooks.

http://dave.pluckerbooks.com:81/ . This website offers stripped-down HTML versions of popular public domain literary works, suitable for viewing on handheld computing devices. Includes 20 works by Charles Fort as well as text of 23 Fort letters to Dreiser. (See also above, 2.d: Correspondence, Other.)

Spencer, Herbert. First Principles (London: Williams & Norgate, 1862). Archive for the History of Economic Thought, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/spencer/ .

c. Subscription Materials

E-texts of books by and about Dreiser and related criticism can be obtained on line by paying a subscription fee from Questia Media America, Inc. at http://www.questia.com/ . A sampling of titles available includes the following Dreiser works: Sister Carrie, The Financier, Newspaper Days (edited by T. D. Nostwich), Twelve Men, Living Philosophies (Simon and Schuster, 1931), and The Living Thoughts of Thoreau (Longmans, Green, 1939).

Critical works available on Dreiser include Burton Rascoe, Theodore Dreiser; Charles Shapiro, Theodore Dreiser: Our Bitter Patriot; Dorothy Dudley, Forgotten Frontiers: Dreiser and the Land of the Free; Robert H. Elias, Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature; and Louis J. Zanine, Mechanism and Mysticism: The Influence of Science on the Thought and Work of Theodore Dreiser. Also included are, among others, Donald Pizer, Documents of American Realism and Naturalism; Pizer, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Kenneth S. Lynn, The Dream of Success: A Study of the Modern American Imagination; Max Putzel, The Man in the Mirror: William Marion Reedy and His Magazine; Paul S. Boyer, Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America; Leslie A. Fiedler, Love and Death in the American Novel; Stuart P. Sherman, On Contemporary Literature; and Charles Child Walcutt, American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream.