Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt : new essays on the restored text / edited by James L.W. West, III.
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| Other title: | Jennie Gerhardt. |
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
℗♭1995.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: GENERAL ASSESSMENT: Janus-faced Jennie / Robert H. Elias
- The biographical significance of Jennie Gerhardt / Richard Lingeman
- Jennie Gerhardt: naturalism reconsidered / Judith Kucharski
- Chill history and rueful sentiments in Jennie Gerhardt / Valerie Ross
- Jennie one-note: Dreiser's error in character development / Lawrence E. Hussman
- Dreiser's ideal of balance / Leonard Cassuro
- Triangulating desire in Jennie Gerhardt / Susan Albertine
- PART II: CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS: Jennie Gerhardt: a Spencerian tragedy
- Jennie through the eyes of Thorstein Veblen / Clare Virginia Eby
- Labor and capital in Jennie Gerhardt / Christopher P. Wilson
- Dreiser and the genteel tradition / Daniel H. Borus
- "Nousework is never done": domestic labor in Jennie Gerhardt / Nancy Warner Barrineau
- Self-sacrifice and shame in Jennie Gerhardt / Miriam Gogol
- Jennie, Maggie, and the city / Yoshinobu Hakutani
- Jennie Gerhardt and the dream of the pastoral / John B. Humma
- How German is Jennie Gerhardt? / Arthur D. Casciato
- Samuel E. [G]ross: Dreiser's real estate magnate / Emily Clark
- The hotel world in Jennie Gerhardt / James L.W. West
- Death and dying in Jennie Gerhardt / James M. Hutchisson.