Update for: 12/09/2008

  • Doug Underwood’s Journalism and the Novel: Truth and Fiction, 1700-2000 has been published by Cambridge UP. It contains a chapter entitled “Literary realism and the fictions of the industrialized press, 1850-1915: Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser."

 

Update for: 09/12/2008

  • "Dreiser Online" now has search functionality. You can search our extensive research material by typing a query term in the Search box. Click on the "Site Search" tab above. The "Media" section has also been activated, with photos of Dreiser and music by his brother, Paul Dresser.

 

Update for: 8/27/2008

  • "Dreiser Online" has been reorganized and restructured with added features and new information. Links on the left side of the page direct you to most of Dreiser related features on the site. Be sure to check back for the forum and search features, coming soon!

 

Updates for: 8/7/2008

  • "Dreiser Online" has gone live!

  • The Genius, edited by Clare Virginia Eby, has been published by the University of Illinois Press in a revised, unexpurgated, and greatly expanded 917-page edition, which represents Dreier’s original version of the novel composed in 1911. The infamous quotation remarks have been removed from the title!

  • The University of Illinois Press has just published American Naturalism and the Jews: Garland, Norris, Dreiser, Wharton, and Cather by Donald Pizer.

  • Hollywood's American Tragedies by Mandy Merck has been published by Berg. It fully analyzes the histories of the three film versions of An American Tragedy of the directors Josef von Sternberg, Sergei Eisenstein (never filmed), and George Stevens.

  • Theodore Dreiser: A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume 1, edited by Donald Pizer, has been published by University of Illinois Press. This is a significant development in Dreiser scholarship. A companion volume, Dreiser’s Letters to Women: New Letters, Volume 2, edited by Thomas P. Riggio is in press with a scheduled January 2009 publication date.

  • Theodore Dreiser's "Dawn" — The Formation of a Mind: An Autobiographical Representation, by Nadja Firner has been published by VDM - Verlag Dr. Müller.

  • New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama, by Edward Margolies has been published by McFarland & Company. Part Two studies variations and themes in works of Stephen Crane, Tom Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Dreiser.

  • Princeton University Press has published Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 by Douglas Mao. "Through original and detailed analyses of Wilde, Walter Pater, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, Rebecca West, and W. H. Auden, Mao shows that English-language writing of this period was informed in crucial but previously unrecognized ways by the possibility that beautiful environments might produce better people. He also reveals how these writers shared concerns about environment, evolution, determinism, freedom, and beauty with scientists and social theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, and W. H. R. Rivers." (book jacket)

  • A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia, edited by Keith Newlin (Greenwood, 2003) has been published in a Japanese translation by Kiyohiko Murayama (Yushodo Press, 2007).

  • The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance: Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell by Mary Hricko is in press (Routledge).

  • Jude Davies (The University of Winchester, England) is editing a volume of Dreiser’s political writings for publication by the University of Illinois Press.

  • Cara Erdheim is working on her doctoral dissertation at Fordham University, "The Greening of American Naturalism," which looks eco-critically at the works of Dreiser, Norris, Wright, Mary Austin, and others.

  • The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor a panel at the ALA Symposium on American Fiction, meeting in Savannah, GA Oct. 2-4, 2008.

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