San Antonio College Library

Brings together reviews and essays on Dreiser by such writers as Sherwood Anderson, Robert Penn Warren, Ellen Moers, F.O. Matthiesson, Charles Walcutt and Richard Lehan. Also includes criticism of individual works--"Sister Carrie," "Jennie Gerhardt," "The Financier," "The Titan," "The Genius," "An American Tragedy" and "The Bulwark".

Gerber portrays the full range of Dreiser's controversial career, from humble beginnings to best-sellerdom to the final desperate attempt to complete his last works.

Counter Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American...