Roger W. Smith
1947
Goodman, Lillian Rosedale. “For a Moment the Wind
Died / Poem by Theodore Dreiser; Music by Lillian Rosedale Goodman.”
Song for voice and piano, 1947. Score contained in Marian Anderson
Collection of Music Manuscripts, U of Pennsylvania library.
1968
Sister Carrie. Opera in Three Acts. Freely Adapted from
the Dreiser Novel. Vocal score with piano; music by Alfred Heller;
libretto by Alfred Heller and Lissy Heller. n.p., 1968. It is not known if
this piece was performed.
1969
“Après une lecture de Dreiser pour basson et piano“
[After a reading of Dreiser for bassoon and piano]. Composed by Alain
Margoni. Paris: Leduc, 1969.
1978
Sestra Kerri [Sister Carrie]. Musical. Vocal
score by Raimonds Pauls. Libretto by Karl Pamše and Tatiana Kalinina
after the novel by Dreiser. Lyrics by Y. Peters. Performance: Latvia,
1978. Vocal score with piano published Leningrad: Soviet kompozitor, 1990.
1980
An American Tragedy. Adapted by Anthony Giardina
and Douglas Wager. Directed by Michael Lessac. Arena Stage, Washington,
DC, 1980.
1990
Carson, Jo. A Preacher with a Horse to Ride.
Play based on the investigative hearing led by Theodore Dreiser and John
Dos Passos into the 1931 Harlan County, Kentucky, miners strike.
Workshop/production: Road Company and Department of Theater Arts, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, 1990. Production: Cleveland Playhouse, Cleveland,
OH, 1993. Published in Alternate Roots: Plays from the Southern Theater.
Ed. Kathie deNobriga and Valetta Anderson. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,
1994. 267–334.
Sister Carrie. Adapted by Tom Creamer. Touchstone
Theatre, Chicago. 17 May–3 June 1990. Directed by Ina Marlowe. Original
music by Jim Ragland.
Writings About Theodore Dreiser
1916
“Literary and Trade Notes.” Publishers Weekly,
23 Sept. 1916: 972. Prints statement (1916-92) by the Authors’ League of
America protesting attempts to suppress The “Genius” by the New
York Society for the Suppression of Vice.
1931
“Book Notes.” New Republic 65 (11 Feb.
1931): 362. Briefly compares and contrasts Fannie Hurst’s Back
Street: A Novel with Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.
Review of Back Street, by Fannie Hurst. Chicago
Tribune 17 Jan. 1931. “It gives the reader some of the same sense of
power and beauty that Jennie Gerhardt had.”
Waly. “Newsreels.” Variety 24 Nov. 1931: 31.
“Theodore Dreiser tells his story about toothpicking in Kentucky and
fails to impress the average reel fan. As an actor he is an amateur
compared to George Bernard Shaw.”
1939
Scott, Evelyn. “Introduction to Books of Southern
Interest.” Southern Literary Messenger 1.7 (1939): 489–91.
Contains comments critical of Dreiser’s introduction to The Living
Thoughts of Thoreau (B39-2).
1941
Lyons, Eugene. The Red Decade: The Stalinist
Penetration of America. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941. 252–55.
1956
Mencken, H. L. “Theodore Dreiser.” The Vintage
Mencken. Ed. Alistair Cooke. New York: Vintage, 1956. 35–56. Reprint
of 1917.39.
1958
Jambor, H. A. “Theodore Dreiser, The Delineator
Magazine, and Dependent Children: A Background Note on the Calling of the
1909 White House Conference.” Social Service Review 32.1 (1958):
33–40.
Mencken, H. L. “The Case of Dreiser.” The
Bathtub Hoax, and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune.
Edited by Robert McHugh. New York: Knopf, 1958. 81–85. Reprint of
1925.10.
1959
Brooks, Van Wyck. “Theodore Dreiser.” American
Critical Essays, Twentieth Century. Ed. Harold Beaver. The World’s
Classics 575. London: Oxford UP, 1959. 21–39. Reprint of 1952.3.
Hindus, Milton. Review of Letters of Theodore
Dreiser, edited by Robert H. Elias (E59-2). American Scholar
28.4 (1959): 534.
1960
Furmańczyk, Wiesław. Review of Letters of
Theodore Dreiser, edited by Robert H. Elias (E59-2). American
Quarterly 12.1 (1960): 107–108.
Hindus, Milton. Review of Dreiser-Mencken Letters:
The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 1907–1945
(E87-2). Commentary 29.1 (1960): 80–83.
Ribalow, H. U. Review of Letters of Theodore
Dreiser, edited by Robert H. Elias (E59-2). Jewish Social Studies
22.2 (1960): 120–22.
1962
Chandler, Raymond. Raymond Chandler Speaking.
Ed. Dorothy Gardiner and Kathrine Sorley Walker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1962. 56–58. Includes Chandler letter of 20 May 1949 in which he
comments about distinctions among various types of novels and observes
that Dreiser’s An American Tragedy “has no more to do with
mystery or detection than [the film] The Lost Week-End.”
1964
Chaplin, Charles. My Autobiography. London:
Bodley Head, 1964; New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. 435.
Ernst, Morris L., and Alan U. Schwartz. Censorship:
The Search for the Obscene. Milestones of Law. New York: Macmillan,
1964. 53, 138–41. Provides documentary evidence related to legal battles
in 1914 over the publication of The “Genius.”
Simpson, Claude M., Jr. “Theodore Dreiser’s Sister
Carrie.” The American Novel Series. Ten Forum Lectures. Washington:
Voice of America, 1964.
1965
Marx, Leo. “The Tyranny of the Unplenishable Self.”
Review of Dreiser, by W. A. Swanberg (1965.39). Nation 30
Aug. 1965: 102–5.
Sears, W. P. Review of Dreiser, by W. A.
Swanberg (1965.39). Education 86.3 (1965): 190.
Stewart, Kenneth N. Review of Dreiser, by W. A.
Swanberg (1965.39). Journalism Quarterly 42.4 (1965): 682–83.
1966
Dos Passos, John. The Best Times: An Informal Memoir.
New York: New American Library, 1966. 206–7.
Narveson, Robert. Review of Dreiser, by W. A.
Swanberg (1965.39). College English 27.8 (1966): 647.
“Theodore Dreiser.” Invitation to Learning:
English and American Novels. Ed. George D. Crothers. New York: Basic,
1966. 290–308. Contains transcripts of panel discussions, originally
broadcast on the CBS radio program Invitation to Learning, among
Lionel Trilling, Virginia Peterson, and Lyman Bryson, who discuss Sister
Carrie, and Harvey Breit, Margaret Mead, and Mason Gross, who discuss An
American Tragedy.
1967
Dahlberg, Edward. Epitaphs of Our Times: The Letters
of Edward Dahlberg. New York: Braziller, 1967. 9–20 passim.
———. “My Friends Stieglitz, Anderson, and
Dreiser.” The Edward Dahlberg Reader. Ed. Paul Carroll. New York:
New Directions, 1967. 223–37. Reprint of 1964.4.
Filene, Peter G. Americans and the Soviet
Experiment, 1917–1933. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967. 188–90, 248,
274.
Harper, Gordon Lloyd. Interview with Saul Bellow. Writers
at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Third Series. New York: Viking,
1967. 179–81. Contains comments on Dreiser.
1968
Boyer, Paul S. Purity in Print: The Vice-Society
Movement and Book Censorship in America. New York: Scribner, 1968. 19,
36–40, 86–87, 109–110, 185, 192–94.
Kellner, Bruce. Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent
Decades. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1968. 36–37, 140–41, 200–201,
230–31.
Sheaffer, Louis. O’Neill, Son And Playwright.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1968. 331, 450.
1969
Seymour-Smith, Martin. Fallen Women: A Sceptical
Enquiry into the Treatment of Prostitutes, Their Clients and Their Pimps,
in Literature. London: Nelson, 1969. 193–94.
1970
Harrison, John M. Review of Theodore Dreiser and the
Soviet Union (1927–1945): A First-Hand Chronicle, by Ruth Epperson
Kennell (1969.23). Journalism Quarterly 47.2 (1970): 386–87.
1971
Dahlberg, Edward. The Confessions of Edward Dahlberg.
New York: Braziller, 1971. 201–2, 250–51, 278–80.
Dreiser, Vera. “Theodore Dreiser’s Life and
Literature Discussed by His Niece, Vera Dreiser.” Recorded interview.
Cassette tape (30 min.). Vigo County Public Library, Terre Haute, IN.
Contains a segment of the weekly WAAC radio series “Dial for
Information,” broadcast 19 Aug. 1971.
Kraft, Hy[man Solomon]. Tape recording and transcript
of interview conducted by Harold Flender, 25, 27, 28 Oct. 1971. New York
Public Library–American Jewish Committee Oral History Collection. 166
pp. and four sound cassettes. Subjects include George Gershwin, Victor
Herbert, Jerome Kern, Sinclair Lewis, and Dreiser.
1972
Gold, Mike. “The Gun Is Loaded, Dreiser!” Mike
Gold: A Literary Anthology. Ed. Michael Folsom. New York:
International , 1972. 223–30. Reprint of 1935.6.
Landsberg, Melvin. John Dos Passos’s Path to U.S.A:
A Political Biography, 1912–1936. Boulder: Colorado UP, 1972. 115,
146, 249.
1973
Sanders, Marion K. Dorothy Thompson: A Legend in Her
Time. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973. 122–23, 146.
Sheaffer, Louis. O’Neill, Son and Artist.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. 199, 364, 458.
Tobin, Terence, ed. Letters of George Ade.
Purdue University Studies. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Research Foundation,
1973. 108–11, 178–79.
1974
Hardwick, Elizabeth. “Seduction and Betrayal.” Seduction
and Betrayal: Women in Literature. New York: Random, 1974. 190–93.
Hobson, Fred C., Jr. Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken
and the South. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1974. 37, 133–34.
1975
Targ, William. Indecent Pleasures: The Life and
Colorful Times of William Targ. New York: Macmillan, 1975. 72–74.
Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the
United States. Volume 2: The Expansion of an Industry, 1865–1919.
New York, Bowker, 1975. 3, 391, 509, 614, 631–32.
1976
Hussman, Lawrence E., Jr. Review of My Uncle
Theodore: An Intimate Family Portrait of Theodore Dreiser, by Vera
Dreiser with Brett Howard (1976.8). Antioch Review 34.4 (1976):
503.
Russett, Cynthia Eagle. Darwin in America: The
Intellectual Response, 1865–1912. San Francisco: Freeman, 1976. 189–97,
199–200.
Simpson, Louis. Review of The Novels of Theodore
Dreiser: A Critical Study, by Donald Pizer (1976.28). Times
Literary Supplement 3 Dec. 1976: 1502–3.
1977
Bourne, Randolph. “Theodore Dreiser”; “The Art of
Theodore Dreiser.” The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911–1918.
Ed. Olaf Hansen. New York: Urizen, 1977. 457–66. Reprint of 1915.13 and
1917.11.
Swallow, Norman. Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait.
New York: Dutton, 1977. 88–93.
1978
DeFanti, Charles. The Wages of Expectation: A
Biography of Edward Dahlberg. New York: New York UP, 1978. 124–25.
Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the
United States. Volume 3: The Golden Age Between Two Wars, 1920–1940.
New York: Bowker, 1978. 76–77, 140, 558.
1979
Bannister, Robert C. Social Darwinism: Science and
Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought. American Civilization.
Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1979. 212–13, 217–20, 225, 247–48.
1981
McShane, Frank, Ed. Selected Letters of Raymond
Chandler. New York: Columbia UP, 1981. 311–12. Contains Chandler
letter with pungent critical remarks about the film A Place in the Sun.
Spencer, Benjamin T. Patterns of Nationality:
Twentieth-Century Literary Versions of America. New York: Franklin,
1981. 56–57 passim.
Strandberg, Victor. Religious Psychology in American
Literature: A Study in the Relevance of William James. Madrid: José
Porrua Turanzas, 1981; distributed in U.S.A. by Studia Humanitatis,
Potomac, MD. 68–70.
Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the
United States. Volume 4: The Great Change, 1940–1980. New York:
Bowker, 1981. 246, 375, 388–89.
1983
Conn, Peter. The Divided Mind: Ideology and
Imagination in America, 1898–1917. Cambridge Studies in American
Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983. 13–14, 79.
Hook, Andrew. “Theodore Dreiser.” American
Literature in Context, III: 1865–1900. London and New York: Methuen,
1983. 191–203.
Mitgang, Herbert. “ ‘New’ Novel by Dreiser Is
Coming Out This Fall” [An Amateur Laborer]. New York Times 8
Sept. 1983: C13.
Payne, Kenneth. “Naturalism and the Proletarians: The
Case of Michael Gold.” Anglo-American Studies/Anglo-amerikanische
Studien 3 (1983): 22. Contains excerpt from letter of Gold to Dreiser.
Seldes, George. “The Nobel Prize and Dreiser”
[letter]. New York Times Book Review 4 Nov. 1984: 45.
1985
Schlueter, Paul and June Schlueter, eds. Modern
American Literature: Volume V; Second Supplement to the Fourth Edition.
A Library of Literary Criticism. New York: Ungar, 1985. 25–27. Contains
excerpts from published criticism on Dreiser by Donald Pizer (1976.28) and
Louis Simpson in Times Literary Supplement 3 Dec. 1976 (see above).
1986
Berthoff, Warner. Literature and the Continuances of
Virtue. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1986. 36–38.
Grossman, Ron. “Prof’s New Anthology Fills in Some
Blanks of Dreiser Chronicle.” Review of Selected Magazine Articles of
Theodore Dreiser: Life and Art in the American 1890s (D85-1). Chicago
Tribune 12 Jan. 1986: 35.
Hunter, William B. “The Struggle of Theodore Dreiser:
Without Knowing Exactly What He Was Doing, He Led the Way to the Realistic
Novel.” Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907
(1986.26). Houston Chronicle 28 Dec. 1986: 37.
Ozick, Cynthia. “Miracle on Grub Street.” Review of
Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26). New
York Times Book Review 9 Nov. 1986: 3. Reprinted in Metaphor and
Memory: Essays. New York: Knopf, 1989. 65–72. (See below, 1989.)
Skiles, Don. “Fighting for Literary Survival.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26).
San Francisco Chronicle 2 Nov. 1986; Sunday Review sec.: 8.
Stuttaford, Genevieve. Review of Theodore Dreiser:
At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26). Publishers Weekly
29 Aug. 1986: 380.
Taylor, Robert. Review of Library of America edition of
Sister Carrie, Twelve Men, and Jennie Gerhardt (AA87.1). Boston
Globe 2 Aug. 1987: A13.
Williams, Kenny J. “Two Chicagos: City of Myth, City
of Memoir; Dreiser Felt Its Power and Made It Legendary.” Review of Theodore
Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26). Chicago
Tribune 28 Sept. 1986: 7.
Yardley, Jonathan. “The Adventures of Young Dreiser.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26).
Washington Post 28 Sept. 1986; Book World sec.: 3.
1987
Kazin, Alfred. “Totem and Taboo in Terre Haute.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26).
New Republic 23 Feb. 1987: 31–33.
Kellner, Bruce, ed. Letters of Carl Van Vechten.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1987. 48, 67–68, 110, 128.
Orvell, Miles D. Review of Dreiser-Mencken Letters:
The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 1907–1945
(E87-2). Journal of Modern Literature 14.2-3 (1987): 229–30.
Taylor, Robert. Review of Library of America edition of
Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and Twelve Men (AA87-1). Boston
Globe 2 Aug. 1987: A13.
Trueheart, Charles. “Documents Show FBI Kept Files on
Leading U.S. Writers.” Washington Post 30 Sept. 1987: A01.
Tuttleton, James W. “Dreiser in Our Time.” Review
of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26).
National Review 10 April 1987: 50–51.
Weales, Gerald. Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the
Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26). Smithsonian May 1987:
178–82.
1988
Berthoff, Warner. An Introduction to Theodore
Dreiser’s Fiction (video recording). South Carolina Educational
Television. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman, producers. Detroit,
MI: Omnigraphics, 1988. Eminent Scholar/Teachers: Modern American
Literature. One 45 min. videocassette (VHS) and lecture guide.
Bogard, Travis, and Jackson R. Bryer, eds. Selected
Letters of Eugene O’Neill. New Haven: Yale UP, 1988. 458. Contains O’Neill
letter to Dreiser dated 3 Dec. 1936.
Cain, William E. F.O. Mathiessen and the Politics of
Criticism. The Wisconsin Project on American Writers. Madison: U of
Wisconsin P, 1988. 90–101, 120–30.
Casciato, Arthur D. “The Making of a Novelist.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907
(1986.26). Virginia Quarterly Review 64.2 (1988): 336–41.
Hobson, Fred. Review of Dreiser-Mencken Letters: The
Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken 1907–1945
(E87-2) and Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters: The Private
Correspondence of H.L. Mencken and Sara Haardt, ed. Marion Elizabeth
Rodgers. South Atlantic Review 53.2 (1988): 127–28.
Jay, Paul, ed. The Selected Correspondence of
Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915–1981. New York: Viking
Penguin, 1988. 4, 7–9, 13–16, 40–43.
Kazin, Alfred. Understanding Theodore Dreiser’s Sister
Carrie (video recording). South Carolina Educational Television. Matthew
J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman, Producers. Eminent Scholar/Teachers:
Modern American Literature. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1988. One
videocassette (VHS) and lecture guide.
Mitchell, Lee Clark. “Naturalism and the Language of
Determinism.” Columbia Literary History of the United States. Ed.
Emory Elliott. New York: Columbia UP, 1988. 525–45. (Dreiser, pp. 542–45.)
Riggio, Thomas P. “Unsteady Teddy.” Review of Theodore
Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26). American
Scholar 57.1. (1988): 151–55.
Ward, Hiley H. Review of Theodore Dreiser
Journalism, Volume One, Newspaper Writings, 1892–1895 (D88-1). Editor
& Publisher 24 Dec. 1988:18.
Whelan, Richard. Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. 119, 143, 194, 564.
1989
Conn, Peter. Literature in America: An Illustrated
History. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1989. 312–18, 404–5.
Garrison, Dee. Mary Heaton Vorse: The Life of an
American Insurgent. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1989. 37, 63, 239–49
passim.
Hakutani, Yoshinobu. Review of Dreiser-Mencken
Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken 1907–1945
(E87-2). Studies in American Fiction 17.2 (1989): 249–51.
Margolies, Edward. “American Biography: Anderson,
Dreiser, Toomer.” Review of Sherwood Anderson: A Biography, by
Kim Townsend; Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907 (1986.26);
and The Lives of Jean Toomer, by Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard
Eldridge. English Studies (Amsterdam) 70.4 (1989): 372–76.
Orvell, Miles D. Review of Theodore Dreiser’s “Heard
in the Corridors” Articles and Related Writings (D88-2). Journal
of Modern Literature 16.2-3 (1989): 333.
Ozick, Cynthia. “Emerging Dreiser.” Metaphor and
Memory: Essays. New York: Knopf, 1989. 65–72. Contains reprint of
review originally published in New York Times Book Review 9 Nov.
1986 (see above).
Rochberg-Halton, Eugene. “Life, Literature, and
Sociology in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago.” Consuming Visions:
Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880–1920. Ed. Simon
J. Bronner. New York: Norton, 1989. 311–38.
1990
Allen, Bruce. “Dreiser, Depicted in Great Detail.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey, 1908–1945
(1990.22). USA Today 2 Nov. 1990: D4.
Delbanco, Andrew. “Searching for Sex and Power.”
Review of Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey, 1908–1945
(1990.22). Boston Globe 30 Sept. 1990: B43.
Enniss, Stephen. “Tragic ‘Journey’ of Dreiser
Shared with Compassion.” Review of Theodore Dreiser: An American
Journey, 1908–1945 (1990.22). Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Special Issue. 14 Oct. 1990: N10.
Kurth, Peter. American Cassandra: The Life of
Dorothy Thompson. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990. 122, 142–44, 171–72.
Mencken, H. L. The H. L. Mencken Baby Book:
Comprising the Contents of H. L. Mencken’s What You Ought To Know
About Your Baby with Commentaries. Ed. Howard Markel and Frank A.
Oski. Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, 1990. 3–6, 12–15, 18–19,
23. Discusses Dreiser’s involvement with Mencken in a series of baby
care articles for The Delineator.
“Noted by the Editor.” The Antioch Review
48.3 (1990): 404. Notes publication of Penguin Classic edition of Jennie
Gerhardt and briefly compares it to Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbevilles.
Smith, Sid. “Sister Carrie Is Swept Away by
Ambitious Script.” Chicago Tribune 15 May 1990: 16. Reviews the
1990 production of Sister Carrie by Touchstone Theatre in Chicago.
Watkins, Floyd C., John T. Hiers, and Mary Louise Weaks,
eds. Talking with Robert Penn Warren. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.
88, 194, 215, 244–46.
1991
Fluck, Winfried. “Sentimentality and the Changing
Functions of Fiction.” Sentimentality in Modern Literature and
Popular Culture. Ed. Winfried Herget. Tübingen, Germany: Gunter Narr,
1991. 28–32.
Riggio, Thomas P. Review of Selected Magazine
Articles of Theodore Dreiser: Life and Art in the American 1890s (D87-1).
Resources for American Literary Study 17.2 (1991): 318–21.
Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From
Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature. New
York: Viking Penguin, 1991. 241–43, 247–48 passim.
Smith, James F. “Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the
Vanities: A Dreiser Novel for the 1980s.” Journal of American
Culture 14.3 (1991): 43–51. Compares Wolfe’s novel with Dreiser’s
Sister Carrie.
Wallace, Jack E. Review of Theodore Dreiser: An
American Journey, 1908–1945 (1990.22). American Literature 63
(1991): 555–56.
1992
Bremer, Sidney H. Urban Intersections: Meetings of
Life and Literature in United States Cities. Urbana: U of Illinois P,
1992. 71–72.
Grazia, Edward. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law
of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random, 1992. 98–142,
150–65, passim.
Hitt, Jim. “The Rise of Realism: Henry James, Stephen
Crane, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, Booth
Tarkington.” Words and Shadows: Literature on the Screen.
Secaucus, NJ: Carol, 1992. 60–63.
King, Daniel P. Review of Theodore Dreiser: An
American Journey, 1908–1945 (1990.22). World Literature Today
66.1 (1992): 137–38.
Loughery, John. Alias S. S. Van Dine. New York:
Scribner’s, 1992. 13, 26, 112, 118, 135. A biography of Willard
Huntington Wright, pioneering art critic and editor of The Smart Set,
who numbered Dreiser among his friends and who, under the pseudonym S. S.
Van Dine, became a best-selling mystery author.
Maltby, Richard. “ ‘To Prevent the Prevalent Type
of Book’: Censorship and Adaptation in Hollywood, 1924–1934.” American
Quarterly 44.1 (1992). 554–83.
Murayama, Kiyohiko. “Recovering Dreiser’s Criticism
of Capitalism.” The American Review 26 (1992): 165–84.
Riggio, Thomas P. “Dreiser and the Limitations of
Canonical Acceptance.” Margin to Mainstream: The Broadening of the
American Literary Canon: Lectures from a Symposium Held October 29, 1988,
in Honor of E. Sculley Bradley by the Philomathean Society. Ed. Eugene
A. Bolt Jr. and Constance D. Harsh. Philadelphia: Philomathean Society,
1992. 13–25.
Seltzer, Mark. Bodies and Machines. New York:
Routledge, 1992. 30–31.
Seret, Roberta. “The ‘Genius’ by Theodore
Dreiser.” Voyage into Creativity: The Modern Künstlerroman.
Studies in European Thought 4. New York: Lang, 1992. 143–53.
Sterne, Richard C. “Dreiser’s Sense of ‘Injustice’
in An American Tragedy.” Legal Studies Forum 16.3 (1992):
333–51.
Weber, Ronald. The Midwestern Ascendancy in American
Writing. Midwestern History and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1992. 55–68, 87–90, 98–100 passim.
1993
Conway, J. North. “Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945): Sister
Carrie, 1900.” American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our
Culture and Ourselves. New York: Morrow, 1993. 183–88.
Crunden, Robert M. American Salons: Encounters with
European Modernism, 1885–1917. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. 113–18,
190–92. Provides an account of the American encounter with European
Modernism up to the U.S.’s entry into World War I and of salons in
Chicago, Paris, and New York where American artists and intellectuals
gathered, including Dreiser.
Epstein, Daniel Mark. “Freeing ‘Jennie’ of Censor’s
Hand: Dreiser’s Heroine Is Redressed.” Review of Pennsylvania edition
of Jennie Gerhardt (A92.2). Washington Times 10 Jan. 1993:
B7.
Goodrich, Norma Lorre. Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima
Donna, Movie Star. New York: Harper, 1993. 127–28, 247–48. Briefly
discusses Sister Carrie as an example of a “fallen woman” who
redeems herself and as representing one of male authors’ varying
opinions on fallen women in literature.
Kern, Alexander. Review of Newspaper Days
(A91.3). Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. 117.1-2
(1993): 125–26.
Mencken, H. L. My Life As Author and Editor. Ed.
Jonathan Yardley. New York: Knopf, 1993. 124–69, 174–75, 217–25, 388–94
passim.
Rolfe, Edwin. “Essay on Dreiser (1871–1945)”
[poem]. Collected Poems. Ed. Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks.
American Poetry Recovery Series. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993. An elegy
for Dreiser written in Beverly Hills, California, the day after Dreiser’s
death. See also Rolfe, Edwin, Trees Became Torches: Selected Poems
(1995), below.
Rumely, John, “Municipal Bond Morality Tale from
1912: It Really Does Depend on Who You Know.” Bond Buyer 30 Aug.
1993: 25.
Wershoven, Carol. Child Brides and Intruders.
Women’s Studies Series. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1993. 60–77, 151–58.
A study of heroines in literature. Works discussed include Sister
Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, and An American Tragedy.
1994
Berthoff, Warner. “Modern Instances: Brooks, Mumford,
Dreiser” / “Robert Penn Warren’s Dreiser.” American
Trajectories: Authors and Readings, 1790–1970. University Park:
Pennsylvania State UP, 1994. 95–99.
Clayton, Douglas. Floyd Dell: The Life and Times of
an American Rebel. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1994. 4, 72–73, 90–92,
99, 127–30, 193.
Folsom, Franklin. Days of Anger, Days of Hope: A
Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937–1942. Niwot, CO: UP
of Colorado, 1994. 28–30, 34, 73, 91, 118, 154, 203, 259.
Koenig, Rhoda. “Fallen from Fashion—Sister
Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.” The Spectator (London) 26 Mar.
1994: 38.
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural
History of Advertising in America. New York: Basic, 1994. 274–81.
Examines The “Genius” within the context of a cultural history
of advertising.
Lin, Wenchi. “Commodity, Performance, and Social
Identity in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Journal of
Humanities East/West 12 (1994): 101–30.
Livingston, James. Pragmatism and the Political
Economy of Cultural Revolution, 1850–1940. Chapel Hill: U of North
Carolina P, 1994. 132–33, 139–47, 151–53, 155–57. Claims that the
exemplary naturalist novel, Sister Carrie, should be read “as a
formal parody of realism.”
Sterne, Richard Clark. Dark Mirror: The Sense of
Injustice in Modern European and American Literature. New York:
Fordham UP, 1994. 108–10, 121–39, 222, 225–26, 229–30, passim.
1995
Burke, John J. “Theodore Dreiser.” From Home and
Abroad: American and British Writers in Philadelphia, 1800–1910.
Lanham, MD: UP of America, 1995. 87–94.
Dardis, Tom. Firebrand: The Life of Horace
Liveright. New York: Random, 1995. 73–85, 155–56, 194–208, 321–29
passim.
“Dreiser, Theodore (Herman Albert).” The
Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. Ed. John S. Bowman.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1995. 200.
Eisenstein, Sergei. S.M. Eisenstein: Selected Works.
Vol. 4. Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein. Ed.
Richard Taylor. Trans. William Powell. London: BFI; Calcutta: Seagull,
1995. 11, 48, 326–28, 381–84, 386.
Faber, Doris, and Harold Faber. “Theodore Dreiser,
1871–1945: A One-Man Literary Factory.” Great Lives: American
Literature. Atheneum Books for Young Readers. New York: Atheneum,
1995. 111–20.
Gelfant, Blanche H. Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A
Triptych of Russian, American, and Canadian Texts. Cambridge Studies
in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP,
1995. 69–71, 74–77, 83–86, 111–12. Compares and contrasts the
narrative strategies of Dreiser in Sister Carrie with Emma Goldman
in her autobiography, Living My Life.
Gronowicz, Anthony. “Dreiser, Theodore (Herman
Albert).” The Encyclopedia of New York City. Ed. Kenneth Jackson.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. 344–45.
“In the Heart of the Country: American Identities in
the Midwest / Theodore Dreiser.” American Diversity, American
Identity: The Lives and Works of 145 Writers Who Define the American
Experience. Ed. John K. Roth. New York: Holt, 1995. 408–12.
Mencken, H.L. “Dreiser as Philosopher”; “Dreiser
as Stylist.” A Second Mencken Chrestomathy. Ed. Terry Teachout.
New York: Knopf, 1995. 278–82. Reprint of 1920-43 and 1930-40.
O’Connell, Shaun. Remarkable, Unspeakable New
York: A Literary History. Boston: Beacon, 1995. 114–20.
Rabb, Jane M., ed. Literature and Photography
Interactions, 1840–1990: A Critical Anthology. Albuquerque: U of New
Mexico P, 1995. 189–93, 420. Contains brief excerpt from The “Genius”
followed by some documentation related to the book’s composition. Also
contains letter of Carl Van Vechten to Dreiser dated 18 Oct. 1932.
Rolfe, Edwin. “Essay on Dreiser (1871–1945)”
[poem]. Trees Became Torches: Selected Poems. Ed. Cary Nelson and
Jefferson Hendricks. American Poetry Recovery Series. Urbana: U of
Illinois P, 1995. See also Rolfe, Edwin, Collected Poems (1993),
above.
Scura, Dorothy M. Afterword to Escapade, by
Evelyn Scott. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 311–13. Quotes from
Scott letter to Dreiser of 12 July 1923 in which she complains of
censorship of her fictionalized autobiography, Escapade.
Shi, David E. Facing Facts: Realism in American
Thought and Culture, 1850–1920. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP,
1995. 238–52 passim.
Spears, Timothy B. “Sister Carrie and the
Logic of Salesmanship.” 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman
in American Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995. 172–91. (See also
dissertation below, 1989.)
1996
Martin, Edward A., ed. In Defense of Marion: The
Love of Marion Bloom and H.L. Mencken. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1996.
Tells of the Mencken–Marion Bloom affair through selections from their
letters and diaries and writings and those of contemporaries including
Dreiser and Estelle Bloom, Marion’s sister and Dreiser’s lover and
editorial assistant.
McNamara, Kevin R. “ ‘Makers of Delight’: Sister
Carrie and the Romance of Metropolitan Life.” Urban Verbs: Arts
and Discourses of American Cities. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1996, 56–92.
See also 91.40.
Miller, Donald L. City of the Century: The Epic of
Chicago and the Making of America. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1996. 190, 195–96, 262–63, 279–81, 524, 530–31, passim.
Milton, Joyce. Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. 429–30.
Pathania, Sucheta. The Novels of Theodore Dreiser.
Creative New Literature 13. New Delhi, India: Creative Books, 1996. A
revision of the author’s Ph.D. dissertation, Jammu U, Jammu, India,
1992.
Wilkinson, Myler. The Dark Mirror/T’omnoye Zerkalo:
American Literary Response to Russia. Comparative Cultures and
Literature 10. New York: Lang, 1996. 142–44.
Wirth-Nesher, Hana. City Codes: Reading the Modern
Urban Novel. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1996. 65–84, 203–6.
1997
Bellamy, John Stark II. “Dreiser Verbiage Litters
Landscape.” Review of A Hoosier Holiday (A97.1). Plain Dealer
(Cleveland) 13 July 1997. Books sec.: 11I.
Bergan, Ronald. Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in
Conflict. London: Little, Brown, 1997. 208–15. Published in U.S.A.
as Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict. Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1999.
Epstein, Joseph. Life Sentences: Literary Essays.
New York: Norton, 1997. 308–21. Reprint of 93.11.
Larsen, S.E. “Between Nowhere and Everywhere:
Literature and the City.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 24.2
(1997): 219–34.
Marshall, Elizabeth. “Collecting Theodore Dreiser.”
Firsts: The Book Collector’s Magazine 7.4 (1997): 42–50.
McGilligan, Patrick, and Paul Buhle. Tender
Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist. New York: St. Martin’s,
1997. 142–43.
Parker, Dorothy, “Words, Words, Words.” American
Satire: An Anthology of Writings from Colonial Times to the Present.
Ed. Nicholas Bakalar. New York: Meridian, 1997. 375–79. Reprint of
1931.87.
Ravitz, Abe C. Imitations of Life: Fannie Hurst’s
Gaslight Sonatas. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1997. 152–53,
155, 159–60 passim.
Robertson, Michael. “Journalism and the Making of
Modern Literature: Theodore Dreiser and Ernest Hemingway.” Stephen
Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature. New
York: Columbia UP, 1997. 177–210.
Writings about Theodore Dreiser:
Master’s Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations
1926
Thomas, Reginald Earl. “The Giant Peasant: A Critical
Study of Theodore Dreiser and His Work.” Master’s thesis, U of
Alabama, 1926.
1927
Pratt, Laurence. “Some Implications of Philosophical
Realism in the Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of
Washington, 1927.
1929
Beal, Maud Layton. “Some Implications of Philosophic
Determinism in the Works of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of
Washington, 1929.
1933
Praeger, Howard A. “Theodore Dreiser on the American
Scene.” Master’s thesis, U of Arizona, 1933.
Thurston, Lenore, “The Tragic Spirit in Eugene O’Neill,
Robinson Jeffers, and Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of Utah,
1933.
1941
Mackey, Edward William. “Voices of the Fourth Estate:
Studies of Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, and Ring Lardner.”
Master’s thesis, DePaul U, 1941. Subjects include Dreiser.
Saalbach, Robert Palmer, ed. “Collected Poems—Theodore
Dreiser. Edited with an Introduction and Notes.” Thesis (D.Phil.), U of
Washington, 1941. [Note: corrected date of 1951.103.]
1943
Wirak, Neta Coe. “Dreiser and Dos Passos: A
Comparative Study.” Master’s thesis, U of Oregon, 1943.
1947
Horovitz, Sydney. “Theodore Dreiser and Some Aspects
of American Society.” Master’s thesis, U of Pittsburgh, 1947.
Lincoln, John. “Theodore Dreiser and Evolution.”
Master’s thesis, Claremont College, 1947.
Mahan, Richard. “The Critics and Theodore Dreiser.”
Master’s thesis, U of Wyoming, 1947.
Robinson, Susan Mae. “Tragic Implications of Man’s
Frustration by Society in Three of Dreiser’s Novels.” Master’s
thesis, U of Louisville, 1947. Discusses The “Genius,” An American
Tragedy, and The Bulwark.
1948
Dickinson, Lucile Lawton. “A Study of Critical
Reaction to the Novels of Theodore Dreiser As Revealed in American
Periodicals from 1900 to 1947.” Master’s thesis, Duke U, 1948.
Roser, George Frederick. “Theodore Dreiser and
Sinclair Lewis: An Estimate of Their Criticism of American Culture.”
Thesis, Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, MO, 1948.
1949
Blied, Paul Gustave. “An Inquiry into Freedom of the
Will as Revealed in the Novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theodore Dreiser,
and Henry James.” Master’s thesis, U of Denver, 1949.
Chu, Shu Yang. “Fact and Fiction in Theodore Dreiser’s
The Titan.” Master’s thesis, U of Missouri, Columbia, 1949.
Handy, William John. “Dreiser’s Naturalistic
Philosophy.” Master’s thesis, U of Oklahoma, 1949.
1950
Crosby, Charles Willard. “Theodore Dreiser’s Views
of Democracy in the Light of His Naturalism.” Master’s thesis, Brown
U, 1950.
Martin, Alonzo Louis. “The Character of the
Businessman in the Novels of William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, and
Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of Louisville, 1950.
Ruffin, Albert. “Religion in the Novels of Theodore
Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Duke U, 1950.
Sandsberry, Jack Coleman. “Naturalism in the Novels
of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of North Texas, 1950.
1953
Kyytsönen, Helmi. “Some Male Characters in Dreiser’s
Earlier Novels. Master’s thesis, U of Helsinki, Finland, 1953.
Sewell, John Thomas. “The Religious Attitudes of
Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of Iowa, 1953.
1954
Connolly, Eugene Francis (Brother Kieran Matthew, F.M.S.).
“Henry Louis Mencken—Defender of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s
thesis, St. John’s U, 1954.
King, William Courtney, Jr. “Scientific Metaphor in
the Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, 1954.
1956
Cooke, Isobel Cecilia (Sister Mary Richard, O.P.). “Theodore
Dreiser, the Foe of Convention.” Master’s thesis, St. John’s U,
1956.
Ogden, Dunbar H. “The Plays of Theodore Dreiser.”
Master’s thesis, Duke U, 1956.
1957
Cobb, Yvonne Brigman. “Comparative Analysis of
Aspects of Naturalism Exemplified in An American Tragedy by
Theodore Dreiser and Of Human Bondage by William Somerset Maugham.”
Master’s thesis, Prairie View A&M College, 1957.
Hoyt, Richard Vernon. “Theodore Dreiser and Social
Darwinism.” Master’s thesis, U of Iowa, 1957.
1958
Knudson, R. Rozanne. “Women Characters in Dreiser’s
Fiction.” Master’s thesis, U of Georgia, 1958.
1959
Kazakos, Thomas P. “Theodore Dreiser: A Holistic
Approach.” Master’s thesis, Northern Illinois U, 1959.
McGowan, Alfred Thomas. “Economic Determinism in the
Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Manhattan College, 1959.
1960
Roach, William J. “Theodore Dreiser’s Fictional
Treatment of the Business Man.” Master’s thesis, U of Wyoming, 1960.
1961
Yamada, Agnes Akiko. “Theodore Dreiser and Thomas
Hardy: A Comparative Study.” Master’s thesis, U of Oregon, 1961.
1962
Glanton, Albert. “Naturalism in Emilia Pardo Bazan
and Theodore Dreiser: A Comparative Study.” Master’s thesis, DePaul U,
1962.
Koehler, James Arthur. “The Major Deterministic
Forces Acting on Theodore Dreiser’s Characters in An American Tragedy,
with Some Reference to Other Novels.” Master’s thesis, Winona State
College, 1962.
Ora, John P., Jr. “Theodore Dreiser, the Lobster and
the Squid.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1962.
1963
McNamara, Owen. “Aspiration as Spirit and Theme in
Theodore Dreiser’s Novels.” Master’s thesis, U of Rhode Island,
1963.
Salvatore, Nicholas T. “The Development of Dreiser’s
Frank Cowperwood as Based upon the Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes.” Master’s
thesis, Temple U, 1963.
1964
Boelt, Diana Tilman. “Echo Structure in Sister
Carrie.” Master’s thesis, U of Virginia, 1964.
Bride, James Henry. “An Examination of the Influence
of Dreiser’s Environment on Sister Carrie. Master’s thesis,
Brown U, 1964.
Diem, Vu Thi Thu. “The Significance of the Women in
Dreiser’s Trilogy.” Master’s thesis, U of Hawaii, 1964.
Khatib, Issam M. “The Philosophical Development of
Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Indiana U, 1964.
Merken, Anton. “Balzac and Dreiser.”
Master’s thesis, U of California, Berkeley, 1964.
Sleeper, Mary Damrosch. “The Treatment of Women in
the Novels and Short Stories of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U
of Maine, 1964.
Vento, Irma Dora. “Dreiser’s Concept of Man.”
Master’s thesis, U of Texas, Austin, 1964.
1965
Armour, Carolyn Kay. “The Rhythmic Structure of An
American Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, Tulane U, 1965.
Berneche, Lawrence. “The Evolution of ‘Creative
Divinity’: Spirituality in the Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s
thesis, Chico State College (California), 1965.
Burnham, Richard E. “The Literary Relationship of
Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken.” Master’s thesis, Duke U, 1965.
1966
Kontiainen, Eila. “The Concurrence of the Infinitive
and the Gerund in Theodore Dreiser’s Novel An American Tragedy.”
Master’s thesis, U of Helsinki, Finland, 1966.
1968
Kretschmar, Evalyn L. “The Supernaturalism of the
Naturalists: A Study.” Master’s thesis, U of Puget Sound, 1968.
Focuses on Dreiser and Hamlin Garland.
Le Blanc, Julie M. “The Urban Class Structure in
Selected Works of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Bowling Green
State U, 1968.
Madden, Fred Stanley. “Theodore Dreiser’s Novels: A
World of Illusion and Disillusionment.” Master’s thesis, City College
of New York, 1968.
1969
Craig, Berniece. “Architecture as a Symbol in Howells
and Dreiser.” Thesis (Education Specialist), Central Missouri State
College, 1969.
Snyder, Joseph MacGeorge. “The Development of the
Naturalistic Hero: As Seen in the Works of Norris, Dreiser, and Stephen
Crane.” Master’s thesis, George Washington U, 1969.
1970
Duffy, James T. “Dreiser: Women Characters in His
Novels.” Master’s thesis, U of Maryland, 1970.
Lucas, Colleen Jeanette. “Integrity in Theodore
Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire: The Limitations of Frank Cowperwood.”
Master’s thesis, U of Akron, 1970.
1971
Corker, David Tom. “Pragmatic Thought and the
Development of Literary Realism.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of East Anglia,
England, 1971. Focuses on Henry Adams, Henry James, and Dreiser.
Dunlop, Charles Richard Bentley. “Theodore Dreiser
and the Law.” Master’s thesis, U of Alberta, Canada, 1971.
Greenberg, Robert M. “The Hero of Finance in the
Novels of Dreiser and His Contemporaries: 1900–1915.” Master’s
thesis, City College of New York, 1971.
Mory, Kathrin. “The Construction of Inevitability in
Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. Thesis (licentiate), U
Basel, Switzerland, 1991.
Stock, Seymour L. “The Quantitative Basis of Dreiser’s
Novels: Sister Carrie, The Financier, and The Titan.”
Master’s thesis, Hunter College, 1971.
Wolinsky, Mimi. “Theodore Dreiser’s Evolving
Naturalism.” Master’s thesis, Hunter College, 1971.
1972
Burt, Katherine Speed. “Religion in the Novels of
Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of Mississippi, 1972.
Conley, Timothy Kevin. “The Fallen Mansion: A Study
of Realism and Naturalism in Three Novels of Howells, Norris, and Dreiser.”
Master’s thesis, Pennsylvania State U, 1972.
McMahon, Neil T. “A History and Analytical Study of The
Hand of the Potter by Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of
Massachusetts, 1972.
Randall, Theodore A. “Theodore Dreiser and H. L.
Mencken.” Master’s thesis, State U of New York College at Brockport,
1972.
Swigart, William E. “Eight One-Act Plays of Theodore
Dreiser: A Critical and Thematic Study.” Master’s thesis, Rhode Island
College, 1972.
Tyssen, Muriel Harrop. “Dreiser’s World of
Illusion: The Imagery of the Theater and the Movies in His Novels.”
Master’s thesis, U of Houston, 1972.
Walton, Rena Bell. “Theodore Dreiser: Influence of
His Mother’s Mennonite Religion.” Master’s thesis, California State
U, San Diego, 1972.
1973
Bulloch, Mary Louise. “Theodore Dreiser and the
American Dream.” Master’s thesis, U of Tulsa, 1973.
Burke, Dolores Lewis. “The American Reality: The
Dream As Dissected by Frederic, Dreiser and Ellison in Selected Works,
with Comparisons to Hawthorne.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1973.
Head, Julia Marie. “Communicators, Expressors, and
Incitors in the Novelistic Art of Theodore Dreiser and Upton Sinclair.”
Master’s thesis, Morehead State U, 1973.
Hertzog, Susan Kathryn. “The American Dream of
Success in the 1925 Novels An American Tragedy, The Great Gatsby,
and Arrowsmith and in the Lives of Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis.” Master’s thesis, U of Delaware, 1973.
Karttunen, Ritva. “Characterization in Theodore
Dreiser’s Novels An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie and Jennie
Gerhardt.” Master’s thesis, U of Helsinki, Finland, 1973.
Lincoln, Maryland. “How Changes in Characterization
Strengthen New Theses in Adaptations of An American Tragedy.”
Master’s thesis, Trinity College, 1973.
Thornbury, Sandra Compton. “Anti-Calvinism in
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.”
Master’s thesis, Morehead State U, 1973.
1974
Fournier, Gerald A. “The Theory of Love of the
American Naturalists As Portrayed in Selected Works of Frank Norris,
Hamlin Garland and Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Niagara
University, 1974
Matkowski, Bette J. “Theodore Dreiser and Women:
Basic Attitudes and Their Influence on His Philosophy.” Master’s
thesis, Ohio State U, 1974.
Roseman, Joyce Ann. “Honoré de Balzac and Theodore
Dreiser: The Artist in Bourgeois Society.” Master’s thesis, Indiana U,
1974.
Solomon, Duane M. “Theodore Dreiser and the
Progressive ‘Zeitgeist.’ ” Master’s thesis, U of Nevada, Las
Vegas, 1974.
1975
Bailey, Muriel Saunders. “The Tragic Aspect of Things
in Five Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, California State
College, 1975.
Natale, Steven. “Theodore Dreiser’s Dramatic Works.”
Master’s thesis, State U of New York College at Brockport, 1975.
Pratt, Colette. “Naturalism: A Review of the Critical
Literature and a Study of the Naturalistic Aspects of Sister Carrie
and L’Assommoir.” Master’s thesis, Ohio State U, 1975.
Simpson, Shirley Anne. “Moral Values in the Fiction
of Theodore Dreiser, 1900–1925.” Master’s thesis, Louisiana State U,
1975.
1976
Bailey, Marja-Leena: The Nineteen-Twenties in America
and How It Is Reflected In Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,
Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt and Theodore Dreiser’s An American
Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, U of Helsinki, Finland, 1976.
Giao, Le Tho. “Social Criticism in Theodore Dreiser’s
Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt.” Master’s thesis, U
of Denver, 1976.
Pattison, Roberta Margaret. “Women in Dreiser’s
Cowperwood Trilogy: A Study of the Major Female Characters in The
Financier, The Titan and The Stoic, with Special Reference to
Their Role in Exposing the Character of the Titan Himself, Frank
Cowperwood.” Master’s thesis, McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 1976.
Thieme, Adelheid. “The Characterization of the
Protagonists in Theodore Dreiser’s Novels Sister Carrie and An
American Tragedy: A Comparative Study.” Master’s thesis,
Westfälische Wilhelms U, Münster, Germany, 1976.
1977
Bryson, William Norman. “Theodore Dreiser: A Critical
Study.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Cambridge, 1977.
1978
Graham, Margaret Ann. “The Role of the Lover, Wife,
Mother, and Daughter in the Novels of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s
thesis, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978.
Scanlon, Hannelore E. L. “Irrtum ist gottlich = To
Err Is Divine.” Master’s thesis, U of Rhode Island, 1978. Focuses on
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Gerhart Hauptmann’s Rose
Bernd.
1979
Asphaug, Magnhild Fjeldvær. “Women’s Scope and
Place in Urban Society: With Reference to Theodore Dreiser’s Sister
Carrie and Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.” Master’s
thesis, U of Bergen, Norway, 1979.
Eidem, Sissel. “Theodore Dreiser: His Development As
an Artist: From a Creed of Naturalistic Determinism to the Acceptance of a
Meaningful, Spiritual Reality.” Master’s thesis, U of Trondheim,
Norway, 1979.
Joyner, Stephenie P. “Dramatic Interlude: The Plays
of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, U of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, 1979.
Lubich, Alfred T. “The American Dream in Theodore
Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great
Gatsby, and Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” Master’s
thesis, Cornell U, 1979.
Puestow, Barbara Mueller. “Dreiser’s Editorials in Ev’ry
Month and Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, U of Florida,
1979.
Skigelstrand, Helge J. “An Analysis of Theodore
Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt.” Master’s thesis, U of Bergen,
Norway, 1979.
1980
Agte, Lloyd Mark. “Harry Peter McNab Brown: Classical
Stylist and Hollywood Screenwriter.” Ph.D. dissertation, Kent State U,
1980. DAI 41 (1981): 3302A. Describes the career of screenwriter
Harry Brown. Notes that the film A Place in the Sun emphasizes
romance and personal tragedy in place of Dreiser’s social determinism.
Hyslop, Stephen Garrison. “Bidding for Power:
Capitalists as Characters in Selected American Narratives, 1865–1915.”
Ph.D. dissertation, Tufts U, 1980. DAI 41 (1980): 716A.
Kaszynska, Katarzyna Anna. “The Mysterious Character
of Human Existence in the Fictional World of Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s
thesis, U of Puget Sound, 1980.
Rose, Eve B. “Eisenstein/von Sternberg and Theodore
Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, Indiana U,
1980.
Simpson, Michael Thomas. “The Dialogue Between the
Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness in Four American Novels.”
Master’s thesis, U of Maine, 1980. Novels discussed are Howells’s A
Modern Instance, James’s The Ambassadors, Bellow’s The
Adventures of Augie March, and Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.
1981
Garfield, Deborah Michelle. “Journey to ‘Elfland’:
The Theater in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s
thesis, U of Virginia, 1981.
Lutz, Mary Jackson. “The Women in Sister Carrie.”
Master’s thesis, College of William and Mary, 1981.
McGuckin, Gregory Thomas. “The Human Will in Literary
Naturalism: A Role Structure Analysis of Emile Zola’s Nana
and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, U of
Maryland, 1981.
Martin, Barbara A. “Sister Carrie and An
American Tragedy: The Publishers’ Judgments.” Master’s thesis,
Morehead State U, 1981.
1984
Ashimine, Takanori. “Heredity, Environment, and
Chance Or Accident in Dreiser’s Novels.” Master’s thesis, Clark U,
1984.
Choi, So Young. “Theodore Dreiser’s Spiritual
Consciousness in His Novels.” Master’s thesis, U of Maryland, 1984.
Roscoe, M. Beth. “Dreiser’s Moral Vision: A Study
of Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, Central Connecticut State
U, 1984.
1985
Maekawa, Reiko. “F. O. Matthiessen: After ‘American
Renaissance’.” Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve U, 1985. DAI
46 (1986): 3764A.
1986
Essex, David John. “The Necessary Good: The ‘True
Ethic’ of Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, College of William
and Mary, 1986. Discusses Sister Carrie and Herbert Spencer’s
influence on Dreiser.
Seifert, Christine H. “Temperament As Destiny: A
Study of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and An American
Tragedy.” Master’s thesis, College of William and Mary, 1986.
1987
Bugabo, Gérard. “Discovery and Disillusion in Three
Naturalistic Novels.” Thesis, U nationale du Rwanda, Ruhengeri, Rawanda,
1987.
1988
Baker, Terry L. “Dialectics on Alienation: Karl Marx,
Sören Kierkegaard, and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.”
Master’s thesis, Penn State U, Harrisburg, 1988.
Gammel, Irene M. G. “The Theme of Alienation in
Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and William Faulkner’s Light
in August. Master’s thesis, McMaster U, Hamilton, ON, Canada, 1988.
Lansford, Ingrid Gimm. “The Rise and Fall of the
Artist Aristocrat in the American Novel.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of
Texas, Austin, 1988. DAI 50 (1989): 444A. Uses Dreiser’s The
“Genius” (among other works) as an example of the treatment of the
artist as superman in American fiction.
Mendini, Kimberly Gay. “Theodore Dreiser and the
American Dream of Success: A Destructive Illusion.” Master’s thesis,
Ohio State U, 1988.
Plank, Kathryn M. “Dreiser’s Real American Tragedy.”
Master’s thesis, Pennsylvania State U, 1988. See also 91.57.
Toure, Ibrahima. “The Individual and ‘Fate’ in
Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.” Master’s thesis, U Cheikh
Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1988.
1989
Benson, Mark Gilpin. “The Political Unconscious of Sister
Carrie.” Master’s thesis, Clark U, 1989.
Lutz, Thomas Michael. “1903: American Nervousness and
the Economy of Cultural Change.” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford U, 1989. DAI
50 (1990): 2054A. See also 91.38. “Making it Big: Theodore Dreiser, Sex
and Success” (thesis chapter).
McQueen, Deanna. “The Man in Blue: Order and the
Police in the Works of Howells, Crane and Dreiser.” Master’s thesis,
Middle Tennessee State U, 1989.
Menzer, Paul Daniel. “The Manhattan Sphinx: Theodore
Dreiser’s The Color of a Great City and the Urban Discourse.”
Master’s thesis, Georgetown U, 1989.
Spears, Timothy Baird. “Changing Custom: Traveling
Salesmen in American Culture.” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard U, 1989. DAI
50 (1990): 3994A. Uses works by Dreiser and others to trace the drummer’s
evolution as a character type in early twentieth-century fiction.
Published as 100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American
Culture. New Haven: Yale UP, 1995 (see above).
Wechkin, Robin Eve. “Shifting the Burden: Literary
Reformulations of Guilt in America.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of
California, Berkeley, 1989. DAI 51 (1990): 1616A.
1990
Adams, Carol Ann. “Women and Biology in Four Novels
by Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Georgetown U, 1990.
Blume, Donald Thomas. “The Hitchcock-Dreiser
Editor-Author Relationship.” Master’s thesis, U of Delaware, 1990.
Dow, Georganne H. “Sisters under the Skin.” Master’s
thesis, U of Maine, 1990. Analyzes woman characters in the works of Emile
Zola, Thomas Hardy, Theodor Fontane, and Dreiser.
Kinsaul, Lucia A. “The Letters of Grant Richards to
Theodore Dreiser: 1905–1914.” Master’s thesis, Florida State U,
1990.
Meigen, Johannes A. W. “Self and Other Or Self Versus
Other? The Perception of Identity and Social Relatedness in The
Awakening, A Hazard of New Fortunes and Sister Carrie.”
Master’s thesis, U of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990.
Patterson, Martha H. “Emerging from the
Tableau: The Female Heroine’s Construction Within and Resistance of
the Male Gaze in Sister Carrie, The House of Mirth and The Wings
of the Dove.” Master’s thesis, U of Iowa, 1990.
1991
Lo, Aboubacry Samba. “Theodore Dreiser’s Complex
Vision of Success and Failure in Sister Carrie and The Financier.”
Master’s thesis, U Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1991.
Pietkiewicz, Karen J. “Theodore Dreiser’s Sister
Carrie: A Study of Transformation and Change in the Artistic Feminine
Psyche.” Master’s thesis, Lakehead U, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, 1991.
Weisner, Janice Beth. “Turn-of-the-Century City
Sketches of Edwin Porter and Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Clark
U, 1991.
1992
Eden, Edward Farrell. “The Work of Women’s Desire
in Turn-of-the-Century American Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of
Virginia, 1992. DAI 54 (1993): 519A. Uses Sister Carrie
among other works to investigate how women’s desire to escape
domesticity is portrayed in turn-of-the-century novels.
Hankey, Leone Sandra. “The Power of Naming: Women and
Law in Twentieth Century American Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of
California, Los Angeles, 1992. DAI 53 (1993): 3212A.
Morris, Matthew Jerome. “The American Documentary
Novel in the Age of John Dos Passos.” Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell U,
1992. DAI 52 (1992): 4331A. Includes chapter on An American
Tragedy.
Neal, L. J. “Dreiser’s Signatures of the Industrial
City: Testing the Myths and Dreams of American Society.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Keele U, England, 1992.
Rains, James William, Jr. “Impossible Justice:
Theodore Dreiser’s Search for Identity.” Master’s thesis, U of
Montana, Missoula, 1992.
Wallner, Elisabeth. “Female and Male Sexuality in
Selected Naturalistic Novels. Ph.D. dissertation, Graz U, Graz, Austria,
1992.
1993
Davies, Julian C. H. “‘Blown to Bits’: Theodore
Dreiser and Spencerian Scepticism, 1892–1901.” Ph.D. dissertation, U
of York, England, 1993. DAI 56 (1995): 568C.
Den Tandt, Christophe. “The Urban Sublime in American
Literary Naturalism.” Ph.D. dissertation, Yale U, 1993. DAI 54
(1994): 2577A. See also 98.17.
Gleason, William Albert. “Playing for Keeps:
Recreation and Re-Creation in American Literature, 1840–1940.” Ph.D.
dissertation, U of California, Los Angeles, 1993. DAI 54 (1994):
3029A. See also 99.24.
Hunsberger, Laurel Roger. “Performance in a
Dramatized Culture: American Urban Fiction (1900–1941).” Ph.D.
dissertation, U of East Anglia, England, 1993. Traces the shift during the
first four decades of the twentieth century from an objective to a
subjective orientation of the self in American urban fiction. Evaluates
Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and The Financier, Wharton’s
The House of Mirth, Lewis’s Babbitt, and Dos Passos’s Manhattan
Transfer.
Metzger, Robert Alan. “The Sinister Sublime: A Study
of the Success Myth and the Grotesque in American Fiction, 1899–1985.”
Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Los Angeles, 1993. DAI 54
(1994): 3033A. Focuses on seven twentieth-century American novels
including Dreiser’s An American Tragedy to explore the way the
pursuit of “success” often leads to the “grotesque” in such works.
Whited, Lana Ann. “Naturalism, the New Journalism,
and the Tradition of the Modern American Fact-Based Homicide Novel.”
Ph.D. dissertation, U of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1993. DAI 54
(1994): 3753A.
1994
Bitzer, Barbara. “Sehnsucht: The Key to the
Secret Life, As Illustrated in Selected Modern American Novels.” Ph.D.
dissertation, Arizona State U, 1994. DAI 55 (1994): 961A. “Sehnsucht,
the Key to Sister Carrie’s Art, Sehnsucht in Dreiser’s Sister
Carrie” (thesis chapter).
Harmon, Charles Calvin. “The Human Element: Styles of
Subjectivity in the United States, 1900–1940.” Ph.D. dissertation, U
of Wisconsin, Madison, 1994. DAI 56 (1995): 241A. The first chapter
notes similarities between views in Sister Carrie and the theories
and biographies of industrial management pioneers Frank and Lillian
Gilbreth.
Seguin, Robert Henry. “Around Quitting Time: Work,
Technology, and the Forms of Middle-Class Ideology in Modern American
Fiction.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke U, 1994. DAI 56 (1995): 934A.
Examines modern American narrative in relation to the historical
development of middle-classness in the U.S.A. Asserts that in Sister
Carrie Dreiser creates an “urban pastoral” as a realm of
middle-class fantasy, a realm which draws on older ideological images of
aestheticized labor but significantly updates them.
Smith, Jonathan Richardson. “The Rise of the Novel
Trilogy in the United States, 1890–1940.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of
Virginia, 1994. DAI 55 (1995): 3194A. “I show how the genre arose
in this country in conscious imitations of Sienkiewicz’s Polish trilogy;
I suggest the implications for traditional separations among romance,
naturalism, and modernism of Dreiser’s borrowing the form from romancer
Churchill.”
Watson, William Lynn. “Imagining Workers: The
Working-Class Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature.”
Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State U, 1994. DAI 55 (1995): 3516A.
Examines how late nineteenth-century realist and naturalist narratives
defuse the working class drive for class self-determination and political
power. Texts examined include Sister Carrie.
1995
Bower, Stephanie Lore. “The Common Commercial Flesh
of Women: Prostitution in Turn-of-the-Century American Literature.”
Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Los Angeles, 1995. DAI 56
(1996): 3627A.
Feldman, Ellen Ruth. “Self-Culturing America, 1838–1917.”
Ph.D. dissertation, U of Chicago, 1995. DAI 56 (1995): 1777A.
Explores how the discourse of self-culture, a rhetoric of amelioration or
self-betterment, functions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
American literature. Dreiser is among the writers whose works are
examined.
Furer, Andrew Jonathan. “‘The Strength of the
Strong’: (Re)Forming the Self in ‘Fin-de-Siecle’ American Literature
and Culture.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of California, Berkeley, 1995. DAI
57 (1996): 1136A. Focuses on ways in which turn-of-the-century writers
represented social, political, and economic anxieties about the health and
integrity of the body. Part II, “Social Reform and the Therapeutic Self:
The American Dialectic, 1880–1916,” examines works of Dreiser, among
others.
Kelley, George Louis. “Smart Money: Business in
American Literature, 1860–1929.” Ph.D. dissertation, State U of New
York, Buffalo, 1995. DAI 56 (1996): 2682A.
Nilsen, Amelia Margetanski. “A Thematic Analysis of
Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire.” Master’s thesis. U of Oslo,
Norway, 1995.
Sun, Hong. “Myth and Reality in the Rural and Urban
Worlds: A Survey of the Literary Landscape in American and Chinese
Regional Literatures.” Ph.D. dissertation, Washington U, 1995. DAI
57 (1996): 674A. Compares transitions between village and the metropolis
as reflected in American regional writers (including Dreiser) and their
Chinese counterparts.
Whyde, Janet M. “Encoding Imperialism: Homelessness
in American Naturalism, 1890–1918.” Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana
State U, 1995. DAI 56 (1996): 4402A. Includes a chapter using Edith
Wharton’s Summer and Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt to
demonstrate that, because of social expectations that women should embody
domestic values, women’s homelessness is represented as a failure to
project the self into the world.
Wiedmann, Lorna Ruth. “Suicide in American Fiction,
1798–1909.” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995. DAI
56 (1995): 1783A. Sister Carrie is among the works discussed.
1996
Blake, L. “The American City in Literature 1820–1930.”
Ph.D. dissertation, U of Cambridge, England, 1996. “William Dean Howells
and Theodore Dreiser are discussed as realists whose urban novels emerged
from a self-conscious synthesis of ante-bellum idealism and machine age
materialism.”
Henshaw, William Gordon. “Class Strata As Seen
Through Costumes: A Project in Costume Design for the Play An American
Tragedy.” Master’s project (M.F.A.), San Diego State U, 1996.
Rand, Francesca. “Theodore Dreiser and the Social
Gospel.” Master’s thesis, State U College of New York at Buffalo,
1996.
1997
Claman, Elizabeth Monteith. “Refiguring Ill Repute:
Representations of Prostitute Women in the United States (1880–1920) and
France (1945–1977).” Ph.D. dissertation, U of Oregon, 1997. DAI
58 (1998): 4638A. Includes a discussion of “unruly women” in the works
of Dreiser and David Graham Phillips.
Donovan, Nancy McIlvaine. “American Tragedies:
Representations of Crime and the Law in Twentieth Century Discourse.”
Ph.D. dissertation, Miami U, 1997. DAI 58 (1998): 3920A. The
opening chapter, “Dreiser’s Paradigm,” discusses the prototypical
“American Tragedy” murder.
Ernst, Monty Lee. “Dubious Battles: Closure,
Capitalism, and the Limitations of Form in Literary Naturalism.” Ph.D.
dissertation, U of Toledo, 1997. DAI 58 (1997): 1707A. “Beyond
Form and History: Dreiser’s An American Tragedy and Doctorow’s The
Book of Daniel” (thesis chapter).
Fournier, Gerald A. “The Theory of Love of the
American Naturalists As Portrayed in Selected Works of Frank Norris,
Hamlin Garland and Theodore Dreiser.” Master’s thesis, Niagara U,
1974.
Hickey, Daniel Edward. “Suicidal Naturalism:
Self-Murder in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature.” Master’s
thesis, The American U, 1997. MAI 40 (2002): 42. “Dreiser’s
Sister Carrie: ‘What’s the use?’ ” (thesis chapter).
Itzkovitz, Daniel. “American Modernism, Race and the
Rhetoric of ‘Jewish Difference,’ 1880–1940.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Duke U, 1997. DAI 58 (1998): 4271A. Asserts that late nineteenth-
and early twentieth-century developments in American writing were
profoundly shaped by the struggle to locate and contain “Jewish
difference.” Dreiser is one of ten writers whose works are examined.
Jessie, Angela Kay. “New Desdemonas: Societal Acting
and Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Wharton, and Larsen.” Master’s
thesis, U of Louisville, 1997. MAI 36 (1998): 47.
Johnson, Brian A. “A Counselor At Hand: Sister
Carrie and Variable Narrative Confidence.” Master’s thesis, U of
Oklahoma, 1997.
Karaganis, Joseph James. “American Literary
Naturalism and the Modernist Turn.” Ph.D. dissertation, Duke U, 1997. DAI
58 (1998): 4272A. Focuses on three writers (William Carlos Williams,
Dreiser, and William Faulkner) who provide the opportunity to consider,
retrospectively, modernist investments in redemptive nationalism and
cultural originality; the persistence of realist nationalist ambitions and
their distortion in Dreiser’s late naturalism; and Faulkner’s belated
turn towards literary naturalism.
Lem, Ellyn Andrea. “Pioneers and Martyrs: Realism and
the ‘Woman Question’ in Turn-of-the-Century American Fiction.” Ph.D.
dissertation, New York U, 1997. DAI 58 (1998): 3524A. “Maidens
and Money: The Dynamics of Work for Women in Dreiser and Glasgow”
(thesis chapter).
