Pennsylvania Press, 1988.
Theodore Dreiser: A Selection of Uncollected Prose. Ed. Donald Pizer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1977.
Theodore Dreiser’s Ev’ry Month. Ed. Nancy Warner Barrineau. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Theodore Dreiser’s “Heard in the Corridors” Articles and Related Writings. Ed.
T. D. Nostwich. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1988.
The Titan (1912). New York: Signet, 1965.
Tragic America. New York: Horace Liveright, 1931.
∗ A Traveler at Forty. New York: The Century Co., 1923. [Dreiser Edition, ed. Renate von Bardeleben. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.]
Twelve Men. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. [Pennsylvania Edition, ed. Robert Coltrane. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.]
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Bibliographies, sources, and guides
In addition to the following texts, bibliographical information is published periodically in Dreiser Studies (and previously in Dreiser Newsletter), in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (Durham: Duke University Press, 1963–), and in the MLA Bibliography.
Becker, George, ed. Documents in Modern Literary Realism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Gerber, Philip L. Plots and Characters in the Fiction of Theodore Dreiser. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1977.
Newlin, Keith, ed. A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003.
Orton, Vrest. Dreiseriana: A Book About his Books. New York: The Chocorua Bibliographies [Printed at the Stratford Press], 1929.
Pizer, Donald, Richard W. Dowell, and Frederic E. Rusch. Theodore Dreiser; A Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1975.
Theodore Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide. Boston: G. K.
Hall, 1991.
West, James L. W. III. A Sister Carrie Portfolio. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985.
Biographies, memoirs, letters, and related resources
The main Dreiser archive is held by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annen-
berg Rare Book and Manuscript Library. A register for the Theodore Dreiser
Papers for this collection is printed in Dreiser Studies 24:1/2 (Spring and Fall 1993, Double Issue) and available on-line at http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/
mss/dreiser/dreiser.html. The University of Pennsylvania Library Dreiser Web Source ( http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/dreiser/) also includes correspondence, still and moving images, scholarly essays, and a reference section. Robert Elias wrote the first biographical study of Dreiser. He has been followed by W. A. Swanberg and then Richard Lingeman. Numerous memoirs have been written about Dreiser, and
Dreiser himself wrote a number of autobiographical pieces; see the asterisked entries listed above under Dreiser’s Writings.
Campbell, Louise. Letters to Louise: Theodore Dreiser’s Letters to Louise Campbell.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959.
Dreiser, Helen. My Life with Dreiser. Cleveland: World Publishing, 1951.
Dreiser, Theodore. The Letters of Theodore Dreiser, ed. Robert H. Elias. 3 vols.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1959.
Dreiser, Theodore, and H. L. Mencken. Dreiser–Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken. Ed. Thomas P. Riggio. 2 vols.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
Dreiser, Vera, with Brett Howard. My Uncle Theodore: An Intimate Family Portrait of Theodore Dreiser. New York: Nash Publishing, 1976.
Eastman, Yvette. Dearest Wilding: A Memoir. With Love Letters by Theodore
Dreiser, ed. Thomas P. Riggio. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
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Elias, Robert. Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature (original edition 1948). Emended edition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
Jaeger, Clara . Philadelphia Rebel: The Education of a Bourgeoisie. Richmond, VA: Grosvenor, 1988.
Lingeman, Richard. Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey, 1908–1945. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1990.
Theodore Dreiser: At the Gates of the City, 1871–1907. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986.
Swanberg, W. A. Dreiser. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965.
Tjader, Marguerite. Love That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser, ed. Lawrence E. Hussman. New York: Peter Lang, 1998.
Studies of Theodore Dreiser
Collections of essays by various hands are listed under the editor’s name. H. L.
Mencken’s many essays on Dreiser are conveniently reprinted in Dreiser–Mencken Letters, ed. Riggio, cited above.
Arnavon, Cyrille. “Theodore Dreiser and Painting.” American Literature 17:2 (May 1945), 113–126.
Bloom, Harold, ed. Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy.” New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
Brennan, Stephen. “The Financier: Dreiser’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell.” Studies in American Fiction 19 (Spring 1991): 55–69.
“The Two Endings of Sister Carrie.” Studies in American Fiction 16 (Spring 1988): 13–26.
Corkin, Stanley. “Sister Carrie and Industrial Life: Objects and the New American Self.” Modern Fiction Studies 33:4 (Winter 1987): 605–619.
Davies, Jude. “Meeting Places: Shopping for Selves in Chicago and New York,”
in Maria Balshaw, Anna Notaro, Liam Kennedy, and Douglas Tallack (eds.).
City Sites: Multimedia Essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s–1930s, an
electronic book. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press, 2000, http://
artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites.
Dudley, Dorothy. Forgotten Frontiers: Dreiser and the Land of the Free. New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932.
Eby, Clare Virginia. Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1988.
Epstein, Joseph. “A Great Good Girl: Dreiser’s ‘Jennie Gerhardt.’” The New Criterion 11:10 (June 1993): 14–20.
Ford, Ford Madox. “Dreiser,” in Portraits from Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936, pp. 164–182.
Gammel, Irene. Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
Gelfant, Blanche H. “What More Can Carrie Want? Naturalistic Ways of Consuming
Women,” in The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism,
ed. Donald Pizer, pp. 178–210. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Gerber, Philip L. “The Financier Himself: Dreiser and C. T. Yerkes.” PMLA 88:1
(January 1973): 112–121.
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“Frank Cowperwood: Boy Financier.” Studies in American Fiction 2:2 (Autumn 1974): 165–174.
Theodore Dreiser. New York: Twayne, 1964. Revised edition, New York: Twayne, 1992.
Gogol, Miriam, ed. Theodore Dreiser: Beyond Naturalism. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
Griffin, Joseph. The Small Canvas: An Introduction to Dreiser’s Short Stories. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985.
Hakutani, Yoshinobu, ed. Theodore Dreiser and American Culture: New Readings.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2000.
Young Dreiser: A Critical Study. Rutherford, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980.
Harmon, Charles. “Cuteness and Capitalism in Sister Carrie.” American Literary Realism 32:2 (Winter 2000): 125–139.
Hussman, Lawrence E., Jr. Dreiser and his Fiction: A Twentieth-Century Quest.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.
Joslin, Katherine. “Slum Angels: The White Slave Narrative in Theodore Dreiser’s Jennie Gerhardt,” in Women, America, and Movement: Narratives of Relocation, ed. Susan L. Roberson. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998, pp. 106–120.
Karaganis, Joseph. “Naturalism’s Nation: Toward An American Tragedy.” American Literature, 72 (March 2000): 153–180.
Katope, Christopher G. “Sister Carrie and Spencer’s First Principles.” American Literature 41 (1969): 64–75.
Kazin, Alfred, and Charles Shapiro, eds. The Stature of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Survey of the Man and his Work. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955.
Kwiat, Joseph J. “Dreiser’s The ‘Genius’ and Everett Shinn, the ‘Ash-Can’ Painter.”
PMLA 67:2 (March 1952): 15–31.
Lehan, Richard. Theodore Dreiser: His World and his Novels. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969.
Lundén, Rolf . Inevitable Equation: The Antithetic Pattern of Theodore Dreiser’s Thought and Art. Uppsala, 1973.
Lundquist, James. Theodore Dreiser. New York: Ungar, 1974.
Lydenberg, John, ed. Dreiser; A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971.
Markels, Julian. “Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience.” The Mas-sachusetts Review 2 (Spring 1961): 431–448.
Matthiessen, F. O. Theodore Dreiser. New York: William Sloane, 1951.
McAleer, John J. Theodore Dreiser: An Introduction and an Interpretation. New York: Holt, 1968.
McNamara, Kevin R. “The Ames of the Good Society: Sister Carrie and Social Engineering.” Criticism 34:2 (Spring 1994): 217–235.
Moers, Ellen. “The Finesse of Dreiser.” American Scholar 33 (Winter 1963–4): 109–
144.
Two Dreisers. New York: Viking, 1969.
Orlov, Paul. An American Tragedy: The Perils of the Self Seeking “Success.” Lewis-burg: Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Perkins, Priscilla. “Self-Generation in a Post-Eugenic Utopia: Dreiser’s Conception of the ‘Matronized’ Genius.” American Literary Realism 32:1 (Fall 1999): 12–34.
Petrey, Sandy. “The Language of Realism, the Language of False Consciousness: A Reading of Sister Carrie.” Novel 10:2 (Winter 1977): 101–113.
Phillips, William L. “The Imagery of Dreiser’s Novels.” PMLA 78 (December 1963): 572–585.
Pitofsky, Alex. “Dreiser’s The Financier and the Horatio Alger Myth.” Twentieth-Century Literature 44:3 (Fall 1998), 276–290.
Pizer, Donald, ed. Critical Essays on Theodore Dreiser. Boston: G. K. Hall and Co., 1981.
“Dreiser and the Naturalistic Drama of Consciousness.” Journal of Narrative Technique, 21:2 (Spring 1991): 202–211.
ed. New Essays on “Sister Carrie.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976.
Rascoe, Barton. Theodore Dreiser. New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1972.
Riggio, Thomas P. “American Gothic: Poe and An American Tragedy.” American Literature 49 (1978): 515–532.
“Theodore Dreiser: Hidden Ethnic.” MELUS 11:1 (Spring 1984): 53–63.
Salzman, Jack. “The Publication of Sister Carrie: Fact and Fiction.” The Library Chronicle 33 (1967): 119–133.
Theodore Dreiser: The Critical Reception. New York: David Lewis, 1972.