Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt": New Essays on the Restored Text - Softcover

 
9780812215137: Dreiser's "Jennie Gerhardt": New Essays on the Restored Text
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ISBN 10: 0812215133 ISBN 13: 9780812215137
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character. The restored edition brings back the sexual charge, reinstates the social and religious criticism, and makes the language Dreiser's again.

This volume brings together 19 fresh readings, together with an introduction, of the Pennsylvania edition by three generations of Dreiser critics. The volume includes general assessments, analysis of main characters, treatments of the autobiographical roots of the narrative, views of various traditions (realistic, sentimental, ethnic) on which Dreiser drew, and investigations of historical contexts that inform his story.

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About the Author

Biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor, James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812215133
ISBN 13 
9780812215137
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232
Editor
III James L. W. West

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