A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia

by Molefi Kete Asante

For a century, Theodore Dreiser has represented for many readers a rebellious modernism whose novels both critiqued the American dream and embodied a bleakly deterministic perception of life. His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), was reluctantly published and then ignored by its publisher, who thought the book immoral. Another publisher withdrew his fifth novel, The Genius (1915), rather than face prosecution on obscenity charges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313316805
• ISBN13: 9780313316807
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 10.3"