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
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