James Livingston (Ph.D., History, Northern Illinois University, 1980). Author of Accumulating America: Political Economy and Cultural Revolution, 1850–1920 and Origins of the Federal Reserve System: Money, Class, and Corporate Capitalism, 1890–1913. He has published essays on Shakespeare, Poe, and Disney’s “Little Mermaid,” among other subjects. Associate Professor, History, Rutgers University/New Brunswick.
Paul A. Orlov (Ph.D., English, University of Toronto, 1979). Dissertation’ “Dreiser’s Defense of the Self: A Reading of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.’’ Author of An American Tragedy: Distorted Definitions of the Self in Modern Fiction (in progress). Published in Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Narrative Technique, American Literary Realism, among others. Assistant Professor, English, Pennsylvania State University/Delaware County Campus.
Scott Zaluda (Ph.D., English, City University of New York, 1992). Published and delivered papers on Theodore Dreiser, Franz Kafka, and Billie Holliday. Assistant Professor, English, Nassau Community College.
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Index
Agnew, Jean-Christophe, 233, 234
Ahnebrink, Lars, xi
American Diaries, 1902–1926 (Dreiser), ix
Amateur Laborer, An (Dreiser), ix
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), ix, x, xiii, xiv
and feminism, 2, 3, 10–13, 31, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43
and film interpretations of, 176–178, 180–184, 185, 188, 191–193, 197
and psychoanalysis, 112, 114, 115, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126
and shame, 95, 96, 101–106
Ames, Bob, 204
Arabian Nights, 59
Awakening, The (Chopin), 65
Balzac, Honoré, de
Père Goriot, 235, 236
Barker-Benfield, G. J., 62
Barriers Burned Away (Roe), 203
Barth, Gunther, 79, 80, 81
Battleship Potemkin (film), 180
Beauvoir, Simone de, 34
Becker, George J., vi
Being and Time (Heidegger), 134, 135, 136, 137, 141, 142, 147, 149, 154, 163, 166, 167
Bellamy, Edward
Looking Backward, 231–232
Bellow, Saul, xiv
Birth control movement, 58–60, 69–72
Blithedale Romance, The (Hawthorne), 226
Blue Angel, The (film), 185
Book about Myself, A (Dreiser), 41
Brandon, Craig
Gillette trial, 6
Brill, Abraham, 36
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoyevsky), 16
Brown, Billy, murder of, 3–8
Bulwark, The (Dreiser), 21
Burke, Kenneth, 221
Canon formation, xii, 201–212
Cawelti, John G., 202
Charlotte Temple (Rowson), 5
Chopin, Kate
Awakening, The, 65
Class, social, 51–73
and birth control, availability of information, 58–60, 69–72
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and gender and sexuality, 55
and women and the medical establishment, 62–65
Clawson, Mary Ann, 78, 88
Clay, Bertha M.
Dora Thorne, 203–212, 235
Cohen, Keith, 177
Comstock, Anthony, 58–59
Confessions (Rousseau), 59
Confidence Man, The (Melville), 226
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1
Coquette, The (Foster), 5
Cowperwood Trilogy, The (Dreiser), 189
Crane, Stephen
“Open Boat, The,” film interpretation of, 178, 180
Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky), 16
Crowther, Bosley, 196
Dasein, 135, 136, 137, 154
Dawn (Dreiser)
and feminism, 42, 45
and shame, 98–100
Decameron, 59
Diaries (Dreiser), x
Dora Thorne (Clay), 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 211, 212, 235
Dostoyevksy, Feodor
Brothers Karamazov, The, 16
Crime and Punishment, 16
Idiot, The, 16
Douglas, Ann, 233, 234
Dreiser, Helen (wife), 18
Dreiser, John Paul (father), 96–97, 98–99
Dreiser, Sarah (mother), 56–57
Dreiser, Theodore
biographical information, x, 56, 96–97, 98–99
Women in Dreiser’s personal life, x, xvi(n. 5), 2, 15–22
Dreiser, Helen, 18
Eastman, Yvette, 1
Harris, Marguerite Tjader, 1, 6, 16, 19–21
Jaeger, Clara, 15, 16, 17
Markham, Kirah, 19
Tatum, Anna, 17
Works by
Amateur Laborer, An, ix
American Diaries, 1902–1926, ix, x
American Tragedy, An, ix, x, xiii, xiv, 2, 3, 10–13, 31, 36, 37, 38, 41, 43, 95, 96, 101–106, 112, 114, 115, 120, 122, 123, 125, 126, 176–178, 180–184, 185, 188, 191–193, 197
Bulwark, The, 21
Cowperwood Trilogy, The, 189
Dawn, 42, 45, 98–100
Gallery of Women, A, xiii, 11, 33,48
“Genius,” The, xiv, 12, 36, 37, 47, 48, 112, 113, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 127, 167, 189
Jennie Gerhardt, ix, xiii, 36, 37, 46, 55–73, 95, 96, 101, 102, 103, 106, 126, 193, 194
Moods, 168
“My City,’’ 20
Newspaper Days, ix, 4
“Protoplast,” 168
Sister Carrie, ix, x, xiii, xiv, xv, 11, 12, 18, 32, 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 56, 57, 58, 59, 68, 77, 78, 80, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 91, 112, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 125, 126, 134, 136, 137, 138, 139, 142, 145, 147, 149, 150, 151,
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153, 158, 161, 163, 165, 166, 196, 197, 201–212, 216–241
Titan, The, 46, 47
Trilogy of Desire, The, 31, 38, 103, 118
See also subentries under American Tragedy, An; Dawn; Jennie Gerhardt; Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Vera (niece), 10
Dreiser-Mencken Letters, ix
Dubliners, The (Joyce), 151
Eastman, Crystal, 14
Eastman, Yvette, 1
Ecrits (Lacan), 122
Eisenstein, Sergei M., xiv, 176, 180
and An American Tragedy, film interpretation of, 177–178, 181, 182–184
Notes, 184
Elks fraternal order, 77–78, 80–82, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 157
Ellis, Charles Edward, 88
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
and discourse of gender, 1
and idealism, 164–165
“Transcendentalist, The,” 164
Family Limitation (Sanger), 59
Family systems theory, 97–98
Faulkner, William, 1
Feminism, x, xi, xii, xiii–xiv
Dreiser’s portrayal of, 1–22
See also Class, social; Men’s studies; Women
Fiction, popular and serious, 201–212
Fiedler, Leslie, 239
Film studies, xii, 176–197
Fish, Stanley, 55
Fisher, Philip, 31, 147–148, 157–158
Flaubert, Gustave, xi
Madame Bovary, 16
Fossum, Merle, 103
Foster, Hannah Webster
Coquette, The, 5
Foucault, Michel, 31–51
History of Sexuality, The, 32, 36
Fraternal, orders, 77–91
Freud, Sigmund, 33–34, 35, 36, 134, 154
“On Narcissism: An Introduction,” 118
and symbolic realm, 116
Theory of Sex, 36
See also Psychoanalysis
Frye, Northrop, 221, 222
Gallery of Women, A (Dreiser), xiii, 11, 33, 48
Gender stereotypes, 8, 11, 12
Gender studies. See Class, social: Feminism; Men’s studies; Women
“Genius, ’’ The (Dreiser), xiv, 12, 36, 37, 47, 48, 112, 113, 115, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 125, 127, 167, 189
Gerber, Philip, 11–12
Gering, Marion
and Jennie Gerhardt, film interpretation of, 194
Gianetti, Louis, 179–180
Gillette, Chester, trial of, 2–8, 9
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 8, 13, 14
Glicksberg, Charles, 32
Goffman, Erving, 86
Goldman, Emma, 10, 71
Graff, Gerald, 202
Grebstein, Sheldon, 144
Greed (film), 180
Griffith, D. W, 176
Hardy, Thomas, xi
Harris, Marguerite Tjader, 1, 6
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Hart, James D., 206
Harwood, W. S., 84–85
Haskell, Molly, 177
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 134, 226, 227, 228–229
Blithedale Romance, The, 226
House of Seven Gables, The, 229
Hayne, Barry, 188
Hegel, Georg, 217, 237
Phenomenology, The, 237
Heidegger, Martin, 134–169, 221
Being and Time, 134, 135, 136, 137, 141, 142, 147, 149, 154, 163, 166, 167
Introduction to Metaphysics, An, 163
Hemingway, Ernest
Old Man and the Sea, The, film interpretation of, 179
History of Sexuality, The (Foucault), 32, 36
Hitchcock, Ripley, 61, 68, 69
Hochman, Barbara, 144
Hoffenstein, Samuel
and An American Tragedy, film interpretation of, 184
Homosociality, 84
Horwitz, Howard, 164–165
House of Seven Gables, The (Hawthorne),229
Hovey, Richard B., 113
Howard, June, 159
Howells, William Dean, 8, 217–221, 222, 235
Modem Instance, A, 218
Rise of Silas Lapham, The, 112
Hurst, Fannie, 14
Hussman, Lawrence, 15, 16
Hysterization, 37
Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky), 16
Introduction to Metaphysics, An (Heidegger), 163
Jacobi, Abraham, “father of pediatrics,” 71
Jaeger, Clara, 15
James, William, 225
compared to Dreiser, x
and discourse of gender, 1
Principles of Psychology, The, 98
Jauss, Hans Robert, 216
Jennie Gerhardt (Dreiser), ix, xiii
editing of, 61, 68, 69
and feminism, 36, 37, 46, 55–73
and film interpretations of, 193, 194
and Heideggerian perspective, 126
and shame, 95, 96, 101–102, 103, 106
Joyce, James
Dubliners, The, 151
Kane, Lester, 126
Kant, Immanuel, 237
Kaplan, Amy, 77–78, 139, 150, 162, 178
Kazin, Alfred, 32, 239
Kinsey, Alfred C., 58–59
Klugman, Steven, 98
Kurosawa, Akira, 179
Lacan, Jacques, xiv, 112–128
Ecrits, 122
Language. See Heidegger, Martin; Lacan, Jacques
Lawrence, D. H., 50
Women in Love, film interpretation of, 180
Lehan, Richard, xii, 139
Leiss, William, 234
Lewis, Helen Block, 100–101, 103
Litoff, Judy Barrett, 62
Looking Backward (Bellamy), 231–232
Lynn, Kenneth, 149
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Macquarrie, John, 135
Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 16
Magnificent Ambersons, The, 177
Markels, Julian, 143–144, 222–224
Marx, Karl, 230
Mason, Marilyn, 103
Maugham, Somerset
Of Human Bondage, 16
McTeague (Norris), film interpretation of, 180
McWilliams, Carey, 81, 82
Medical establishment and women, 62–65
Melville, Herman, 226–228
Confidence Man, The, 226
Moby Dick, film interpretation of, 179
Mencken, H. L., 60–61
Men’s studies, xiii, 77–91
Michaels, Walter Benn, xii, 44, 138, 139, 167, 178, 228, 239–240
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 13, 14
Miller, Nancy, 2
Mitchell, Lee Clark, xvii (n. 10), 112–113
Moby Dick (Melville), film interpretation of, 179
Modem Instance, A (Howells), 218
Moers, Ellen, xii, 36, 112
Moi, Toril, 45
Montagu, Ivor, 180–181
Moods (Dreiser), 168
Moulding a Maiden (Ross), 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209
“My City” (Dreiser), 20
Nana (Zola), 16
Naturalism, ix, xi, xii, 178, 221
New historicism, xii, 138, 216–241
Newspaper Days (Dreiser), ix, 4
Norris, Frank
McTeague, film interpretation of, 180
Notes (Eisenstein), 184
Nye, Russel, 201–202
Oates, Joyce Carol, xi
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles), 164
Of Human Bondage (Maugham), 16
Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), film interpretation of, 179
O’Neill, Eugene
Strange Interlude, 181
“On Narcissism: An Introduction” (Freud), 118
“Open Boat, The” (Crane), film interpretation of, 178, 180
Opening of a Chestnut Burr, The (Roe), 203