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...Charles A. Fenton Letters of Theodore Dreiser: A Selection . Edited with Preface and Notes by Elias Robert H. . Three vols. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1959 . Pp. 1067 . $18.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 302 The South Atlantic...

...Bruce Crawford Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 THEODORE DREISER LETTER-WRITING CITIZEN Bruce Crawford IN HIS LATTER YEARS Theodore Dreiser cultivated a fairly regular correspondence with a proud circle of fellow citizens} I happened to be one of them. Most of the correspondence...

...Lewis Leary Theodore Dreiser . By Matthiessen F. O. . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1951 . Pp. 267 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews 597 thesis of James s otherness, would remind us that he was a native of mid-century America...

...Everett Carter Dreiser . By Swanberg W. A. . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1965 . Pp. xvii , 614 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1966 by Duke University Press 1966 Book Reviews 155 The Battle and the Books: Some Aspects of Henry James. By Ed­ ward Stone. Athens: Ohio University...

... Quarterly the author as far as possible has let Dreiser speak for himself. The result is an artful, compelling arrangement of generous quotations from letters, from autobiographical writings, from literary reminiscences, and from personal interviews; one feels that one has had the relevant evi­ dence...

..., whose own critical insights are keen, balanced, and provocative. Edward Stone. Theodore Dreiser. By F. O. Matthiessen. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1951. Pp. 267. $3.50. This is the late F. O. Matthiessen s last book, completed but not fully revised at the time of his death. It is a study...

... of the very density of informa­ tion which these letters now furnish. Elias s own biography of Dreiser, in 1949, was an extended philosophical definition rather than a defini­ tive life. Not until the appearance of this admirable selection could there be a full sense of the complexity of Dreiser s personality...

... a handsome, clean booklet, and the editors have planned the series with care. Readers of the South Atlantic who have not seen the prospectus may be interested in the list of writers so far announced: O Neill, Twain, James, Poe, Dreiser, Cather, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Fitzgerald, Stephen Crane, Lewis...

.... Fortunately, he admires Van Vechten, whose talent was so fragile that a hostile grip on it would leave only a mound of dust for the reader. Mr. Lueders also acclaims the 1920 s as gay, irre­ sponsible, and experimental, even though this view must ignore, say, the later Theodore Dreiser, cautious Calvin...

... of a Coutrtry Town in 1883, Joseph Kirkland s Zury in 1887, Hamlin Garland s Main-Travelled Roads in 1891, and Frank Norris s and Theodore Dreiser s work by 1900. Muckraking appeared in the next decade, Anderson s and Farrell s fiction in the twenties. Principally in the East, on the other hand...

..., Daisy Miller, Isabel Archer, Christopher Newman, Lambert Strether, Milly Teal, and Maggie Verver James on at least one occasion drew a very different American type in Roderick Hudson. He appears again as Floyd Dell s Moon Calf, as Dreiser s Genius, as Carl Van Vechten s Gareth Johns, as Wolfe s...

... and illuminating one valuable tree in what never quite becomes a forest. INDIANA UNIVERSITY TERENCE MARTIN Dreiser. By W. A. Swanberg. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons, 1965. Pp. xvii, 614. $10.00. For all its generous size, this newest biography of Theodore Dreiser is unpretentious: it is intended solely...

... have with the content of the book. Thus his review of Theodore Dreiser s An American Tragedy is both admiring and perceptive; whatever subsequent reservations Davidson had about Dreiser s attitudes, he reviewed the book as a novel, and responded to it with warmth and enthusiasm. Not all his critical...

... Norris, Crane, and Dreiser took up Zola s naturalism, the transcendental­ ism of the first renaissance was supplanted by an almost doctrinal scientific fundamentalism. 392 The South Atlantic Quarterly By 1925, with O Neill and Hemingway, American literature had run full circle and was happily stabilized...

... Scott, Duke University] Teddy Roosevelt wrote a fan letter to Edwin Arlington Robinson, as did Scott Fitzgerald to Theodore Dreiser ( Mr. Dreiser, I get a great kick out of your books Frank Harris once bought in Nice what he thought was an erotic novel, only to discover that Petitesfemmes was Little...

... critics. Mr. Thorp is too good an historian to let his schematic grouping get the better of the authors he is writing about. For example, he dis­ cusses Dreiser as a naturalist, but he uses naturalism as an avenue of approach to Dreiser, not as a method of pigeonholing him. So the result is that one can...

... cusses Dreiser as a naturalist, but he uses naturalism as an avenue of approach to Dreiser, not as a method of pigeonholing him. So the result is that one can read this book without feeling that all is being over­ systematized and oversimplified. I do not agree with all of Mr. Thorp s estimates...

... by text­ book writers, a circumstance which would have pained him, and he is being ignored by writers for the little magazines, a fact which would have pained him just as much. His heroes are nearly all forgotten or sneered at. Dreiser is now being discussed in col­ lege classrooms, but, were Mencken...

... by text­ book writers, a circumstance which would have pained him, and he is being ignored by writers for the little magazines, a fact which would have pained him just as much. His heroes are nearly all forgotten or sneered at. Dreiser is now being discussed in col­ lege classrooms, but, were Mencken...

... puts it squarely in the naturalistic tradition of artists like Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Fritz Lang. As with many of Hollywood s best films, the literary materials on which lam a Fugitive was based are third-rate or worse. Robert E. Bums, whose memoirs provided the film s story...