The last titan : a life of Theodore Dreiser /
Jerome Loving.
- Berkeley : University of California Press,
- 1 online resource (xvi, 480 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser.
When Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality - for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser; whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave.