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Sister Carrie

Contents

  • The Text of Sister Carrie
  • Appendix: Passages Cut by Dreiser and Arthur Henry in The Typescript Version of Sister Carrie
  • Backgrounds and Sources I
  • CARRIE
    • Chicago Mail, He Cleaned Out the Safe
    • Chicago Tribune, Clerk and Cash
    • Chicago Mail, A Woman in the Case
    • Chicago Mail, A Dashing Blonde
    • 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, [Balzac’s Paris and Pittsburgh]
    • Theodore Dreiser, Curious Shifts of the Poor
    • Theodore Dreiser, The Man on the Sidewalk
  • 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 Dreisser (June 8, 1900)
    • Walter H. Page, To Theodore Dreiser, June 9, 1900)
    • Arthur Henry, To Theodore Dreisser (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 Notman, Mr. Dreiser
  • Theodore Dreiser, To John Howard Lawson
  • Charles C. Walcutt, Theodore Dreiser: The Wonder and Terror of Life
  • Kenneth S. Lynn, [Sister Carrie: An Introduction]
  • Julian Markels, Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience
  • Ellen Moers, The Finess of Dreiser
  • Ellen Moers, The Blizzard
  • Robert Penn Warren, [Sister Carrie]
  • Donald Pizer, Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Approach Through Form
  • Philip Fisher, The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City
  • Robert Shulman, Dreiser and the Dynamics of American Capitalism
  • The Chronology of Sister Carrie

    Selected Bibliography