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Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt" : New Essays on the Restored Text /
In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blu...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: General Assessments; 1. Janus-Faced Jennie; 2. The Biographical Significance of Jennie Gerhardt; 3. Jennie Gerhardt: Naturalism Reconsidered; 4. Chill History and Rueful Sentiments in Jennie Gerhardt; 5. Jennie One-Note: Dreiser's Error in Character Development; 6. Dreiser's Ideal of Balance; 7. Triangulating Desire in Jennie Gerhardt; Part II: Critical and Historical Contexts; 8. Jennie Gerhardt: A Spencerian Tragedy; 9. Jennie Through the Eyes of Thorstein Veblen; 10. Labor and Capital in Jennie Gerhardt; 11. Dreiser and the Genteel Tradition.
- 12. ""Housework Is Never Done"": Domestic Labor in Jennie Gerhardt13. Self-Sacrifice and Shame in Jennie Gerhardt; 14. Jennie, Maggie, and the City; 15. Jennie Gerhardt and the Dream of the Pastoral; 16. How German Is Jennie Gerhardt?; 17. Samuel E. [G]ross: Dreiser's Real Estate Magnate; 18. The Hotel World in Jennie Gerhardt; 19. Death and Dying in Jennie Gerhardt; Checklist: Criticism of the 1911 Text; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.