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Sister Carrie 3e

Contents

Selections in bold are new to the Third Edition

  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • The Text of Sister Carrie
  • A Note on the Text
  • Textual Appendix
  • Backgrounds and Sources I
  • CARRIE
  • Photograph of Emma Dreiser
  • Chicago Mail • He Cleaned Out the Safe
  • Chicago Tribune • Clerk and Cash
  • Chicago Mail • A Woman in the Case
  • Chicago Mail • A Dashing Blone
  • Chicago Tribune • Hopkins Is Sorry
  • Theodore Dreiser • [Sisters and Suitors]
  • Theodore Dreiser • [Emma’s Elopement]
  • HURSTWOOD
  • Theodore Dreiser • [Downfall in the City]
  • DROUET
  • George Ade • The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer
  • THE CITY
  • Theodore Dreiser • [Chicago]
  • Theodore Dreiser • [New York]
  • Theodore Dreiser • Reflections
  • Theodore Dreiser • Curious Shifts of the Poor
  • THE STRIKE
  • Theodore Dreiser • [A Street-Car Strike]
  • Theodore Dreiser • The Strike To-day
  • Backgrounds and Sources II
  • COMPOSITION
  • Theodore Dreiser • To H.L. Mencken (May 13, 1916)
  • Dorothy Dudley • [The Composition of Sister Carrie]
  • New York Herald • "Sister Carrie": Theodore Dreiser
  • PUBLICATION
  • Frank Norris • To Theodore Dreiser (May 28, 1900)
  • Frank Norris • To Theodore Dreiser (June 8, 1900)
  • Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (June 9, 1900)
  • Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 14, 1900)
  • Frank Norris • To Arthur Henry (July 18, 1900)
  • Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)
  • Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To Arthur Henry (July 23, 1900)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To Walter H. Page (July 23, 1900)
  • Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 26, 1900)
  • Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 1900)
  • Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (August 2, 1900)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To Walter H. Page (August 6, 1900)
  • Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (August 1900?)
  • Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (August 15, 1900)
  • F. N. Doubleday • To Theodore Dreiser (September 4, 1900)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To F.N. Doubleday (after September 4, 1900)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To Frank Norris (December 1900)
  • Frank Norris • To Theodore Dreiser (January 28, 1901)
  • LEGEND
  • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Author of Sister Carrie
  • S. A. Everitt • To Theodore Dreiser (February 9, 1905)
  • Theodore Dreiser • To Fremont Older (November 27, 1923)
  • F. N. Doubleday • To Franklin Walker (May 4, 1931)
  • Theodore Dreiser • The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie
  • Dorothy Dudley • [The "Suppression" Controversy]
  • Criticism
  • Theodore Dreiser • True Art Speaks Plainly
  • Otis Norman • Mr. Dreiser
  • Theodore Dreiser • To John Howard Lawson (October 10, 1928)
  • Julian Markels • Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience
  • Ellen Moers • The Finesse of Dreiser
  • Robert Penn Warren • [Sister Carrie]
  • Philip Fisher • The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City
  • Amy Kaplan • The Sentimental Revolt of Sister Carrie
  • Alan Trachtenberg • Who Narrates?: Dreiser’s Presence in Sister Carrie
  • Kevin R. McNamara • The Ames of the Good Society: Sister Carrie and Social Engineering
  • Blanche H. Gelfant • What More Can Carrie Want?: Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women
  • Donald Pizer • The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
  • Cristina Ruotolo • "Whence the Song": Voice and Audience in Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
  • The Chronology of Sister Carrie
  • Selected Bibliography