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Originally published in Dreiser Studies 36.1 (Winter 2005).  © 2005 Dreiser Studies

A Dreiser Checklist, 2004

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 2004. 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.

A2004.1. Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2004. Dover Thrift Editions. Reprints text of the 1900 Doubleday, Page edition.

A2004.2. ———. A Traveler at Forty. Ed. Renate von Bardeleben. The Dreiser Edition. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004. A newly edited and annotated edition which restores a vast amount of text cut or left out of the original 1913 edition of the book. Restored portions are taken from the unabridged text of a later typescript, magazine articles based on Dreiser’s 1911–1912 trip to Europe, and Dreiser’s travel diary and correspondence.

D2004.1. Gopnik, Adam, ed. Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology. New York: Library of America, 2004. 202–210. Contains an excerpt from Dreiser’s A Traveler at Forty.

D2004.2. Rusch, Frederic E., and Donald Pizer, eds. Theodore Dreiser: Interviews. The Dreiser Edition. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2004.

2004.1. Bardeleben, Renate von. Review of Schwester Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser. Trans. Anna Nussbaum. Introd. Heike Paul. Dreiser Studies 35.1 (2004): 68–69.

2004.2. Bisbort, Alan. “An American Revival: Adding the Name ‘Dreiser’ to the Literary Scene Again.” New York Times [Connecticut edition] 4 Jan. 2004: sec. 14CN, 5. Discusses the revival of interest in Dreiser and the effect on his reputation as revealed by various publishing and artistic activities, notably the Dreiser Edition. Profiles Thomas P. Riggio, General Editor of the Dreiser Edition.

2004.3. Bloom, Harold, ed. American Naturalism. Bloom’s Period Studies. Philadelphia: Chelsea, 2004. Reprints 1942.24, 1950.6, 1950.20, 1966.31, 1981.37, 1984.41, 1985.21, and 1997.7. See also comments on An American Tragedy in Harold Bloom’s introduction, pp. 16–19.

2004.4. Brown, Bill. “The Matter of Dreiser’s Modernity.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 83–99.

2004.5. Campbell, Donna M. “Fiction: 1900 to the 1930s.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2002. Ed. David J. Nordloh. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2004. 269–307. (Dreiser, pp. 274–78.)

2004.6. Cassuto, Leonard, and Clare Virginia Eby, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 2004.

2004.7. Cassuto, Leonard. “Dreiser and Crime.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 196–213.

2004.8. Culleton, Claire A. Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 68, 71–74. Citing documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Culleton examines how J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI showed a pattern of fearing and seeking to intimidate twentieth-century literary figures who were critical of American culture and middle class values: Joyce, Dreiser, Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, and John Steinbeck.

2004.9. Davies, Jude. “The Struggle for Existence, the Struggle for Domination, and the Struggle for Justice: Animals and the Social in Theodore Dreiser’s ‘The Shining Slave Makers’ and The Financier.” Animal Magic: Essays on Animals in the American Imagination. Ed. Jopi Nyman and Carol Smith. Joensuun Yliopisto, Kirjallisuuden ja Kulttuurin Tutkimuksia/University of Joensuu, Studies in Literature and Culture 11. Joensuu, Finland: Faculty of Humanities, U of Joensuu, 2004. 55–72.

2004.10. Dudley, John. A Man’s Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004. 174–75. Briefly compares the lynchings depicted in Dreiser’s “Nigger Jeff” and James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

2004.11. Eby, Clare Virginia. “Dreiser and Women.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 142–59.

2004.12. Fleissner, Jennifer L. “The New Woman and the Old Man: Sentimentality and ‘Drift’ in Dreiser and Wharton.” Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. 161–200.

2004.13. Gair, Christopher. “Sister Carrie, Race, and the World’s Columbian Exposition.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 160–76.

2004.14. Giles, Paul. “Dreiser’s Style.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 47–62.

2004.15. Healy, Patrick. “Poor Man’s Paradises: Not Just for Summer.” New York Times 23 May 2004: sec. 14 (Long Island Weekly), 10. Notes that Baiting Hollow in Suffolk County, NY, was the setting of an unspecified short story by Dreiser.

2004.16. Hricko, Mary. “The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance: The Writings of Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State U, 2004. DAI 65.8 (2005): 2989A.

2004.17. Jett, Kevin. “Literary Soul Mates? Dreiser, Hervey White, and Quicksand.” Dreiser Studies 35.2 (2004): 29–44.

2004.18. Jurca, Catherine. “Dreiser, Class, and the Home.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 100–11.

2004.19. Lears, Jackson. “Dreiser and the History of American Longing.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 63–79.

2004.20. Link, Eric Carl. The Vast and Terrible Drama: American Literary Naturalism in the Late Nineteenth Century. Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2004. Passim.

2004.21. Loonam, John P. “Always with Us: Images of Poverty in American Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, City U of New York, 2004. DAI 65.8 (2005): 2991A. “Discovering Poverty: Jacob Riis, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser” (thesis chapter).

2004.22. Loving, Jerome. “Theodore Dreiser.” The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature. Ed. Jay Parini. 4 vols. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2004. 1: 408–17.

2004.23. Lu, Jie. “Similar Phenomena, Different Experiments? A Study of Thomas Hardy’s Literary Influence on Theodore Dreiser.” Midwest Quarterly 45.4 (2004): 415–26. Focuses on Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt.

2004.24. McLemee, Scott. “Keeping It Real.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 30 June 2004: A11. Mentions the ups and downs of Dreiser’s reputation. His “tales of the rise and fall of ordinary people in the Gilded Age retained their power despite slovenly diction, bad grammar, and the author’s penchant for surges of bombastic prose-poetry.”

2004.25. Neubauer, Gregory M. “Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Gloom’ and Estelle Bloom Kubitz’s ‘I and One of the Others’: An Edition.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina, 2004.

2004.26. Niemi, Robert. “Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” American Writers Classics, vol. 2. Ed. Jay Parini. New York: Scribner, 2004. 19–35.

2004.27. Orvell, Miles. “Dreiser, Art, and the Museum.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 127–41.

2004.28. Pinkerton, Jan, and Randolph H. Hudson, Encyclopedia of the Chicago Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide to the Lives and Works of the Chicago Renaissance Writers. New York: Facts On File, 2004. Passim. Includes numerous entries related to Dreiser and his works.

2004.29. Pizer, Donald. “Dreiser and the Jews.” Dreiser Studies 35.1 (2004): 1–23.

2004.30. Puskar, Jason Robert. “Underwriting the Accident: Narratives of American Chance, 1871–1935.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard U, 2004. DAI 65.5 (2004): 1784A. Studies the increasing importance of chance to American literature and culture, focusing on novels by William Dean Howells, Anna Katharine Green, Stephen Crane, Dreiser, and James Cain. “The ‘Accident on Purpose’: Dreiser, Cain, and the New Deal” (thesis chapter).

2004.31. Review of Jerome Loving, The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser (2005). Kirkus Reviews 72.24 (15 Dec. 2004): 1186.

2004.32. Riggio, Thomas P. “Dreiser and the Uses of Biography.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 30–46.

2004.33. Robbins, Bruce. “Can There Be Loyalty in The Financier? Dreiser and Upward Mobility.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 112–26.

2004.34. Schwarzer, Mitchell. Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media. New York: Princeton Architectural P, 2004. 44–45. A work of architectural history analyzing how the perception of modern architecture has been affected by transportation and the camera, with an example from Sister Carrie.

2004.35. Shen, Sigmund. “Dreaming America, Surviving Ambivalence.” Ph.D. dissertation, New York U, 2004. DAI 65.3 (2004): 936A. Examines the psychic conflicts of literary characters and identifies their sources of desire in the shaping discourses of twentieth-century U.S. cultural history—race, class, gender, and religion. Works discussed include Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.

2004.36. Smith, Roger W. “A Dreiser Checklist, 2000–2001.” Dreiser Studies 35.1 (2004): 38–52.

2004.37. ———. “A Dreiser Checklist, 2002–2003.” Dreiser Studies 35.2 (2004): 45–59.

2004.38. “Story a Sensation as Life Imitates Art.” Times Leader [Wilkes-Barre, PA] 22 Aug. 2004. Focuses on the Robert Edwards murder case which Dreiser covered for the New York Post in 1934. Briefly discusses its parallels to Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and quotes Danny McCue, who recalls Dreiser’s covering the trial.

2004.39. Wald, Priscilla. “Dreiser’s Sociological Vision.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 177–95.

2004.40. West, James L. W. III. “Dreiser and the Profession of Authorship.” Cassuto and Eby 2004.6, pp. 15–29.

2004.41. Whaley, Annemarie Koning. “Business Is Business: Corporate America in the Restored Jennie Gerhardt.” Dreiser Studies 35.1 (2004): 24–37.

2004.42. Wydeven, J. J. Review of Theodore Dreiser’s Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897–1902, ed. Hakutani (2003.3). Choice 41.6 (2004): 1077.

2004.43. Zimmerman, David. “The Financier and the Ends of Accounting.” Dreiser Studies 35.2 (2004): 3–28.