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The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser
Jerome Loving
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Description for The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser
Hardback. Theodore Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time because of his literary efforts, and of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. This biography weaves Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Num Pages: 528 pages, 47 b/w photographs. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 158 x 44. Weight in Grams: 896.
When Theodore Dreiser first published "Sister Carrie" in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality - for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of 'the godless side of American life'. It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context ... Read more
When Theodore Dreiser first published "Sister Carrie" in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality - for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of 'the godless side of American life'. It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520234819
SKU
V9780520234819
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About Jerome Loving
Jerome Loving, Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University, is author of Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself (California, 1999), Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance (1993), and Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story (1986), among other books. He is editor of Frank Norris's McTeague (1995), Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1990), and Civil ... Read more
Reviews for The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser
"Jerome Loving has produced an immensely readable, lively, detailed account of Theodore Dreiser's life, always with one eye on Dreiser's great books. This is vivid biography, bringing the man very much to life. The streets, the newsrooms, the rented rooms, the yearning of the young Dreiser for money, fame, women, good things in life, keeps reminding the reader of Dreiser's ... Read more