Sister Carrie Nce 3E Pa (Dreiser)

by Dreiser,Theodore

• ISBN13: 9780393927733
• ISBN10: 0393927733
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-05
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

The text of the Third Edition is based on the 1900 Doubleday Page edition, with detailed annotations that reveal the author's use of real people and places in Chicago and New York. The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition's text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sister Carrie. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints generous excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies and other writings that help establish his personal connection to the novel. Coverage of the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher is drawn from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and F. N. Doubleday. "Criticism" collects thirteen essays, six of them new to the Third Edition, that discuss Dreiser's distinctive literary naturalism and narrative technique, the novel's relationship to American culture, and issues of gender and class in the novel, among other topics. Contributors include Ellen Moers, Robert Penn Warren, Amy Kaplan, Alan Trachtenberg, and Donald Pizer, among others. A Chronology of Sister Carrie and a Selected Bibliography are also included. About the Series: No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions. Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work fully. Careful editing, first-rate translation, and thorough explanatory annotations allow each text to meet the highest literary standards while remaining accessible to students. Each edition is printed on acid-free paper and every text in the series remains in print. Norton Critical Editions are the choice for excellence in scholarship for students at more than 2,000 universities worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	ix
A Note on the Text	xi
The Text of Sister Carrie	1	(604)
Appendix: Passages Cut by Dreiser and Arthur Henry in the Typescript Version of Sister Carrie	356	(18)
Backgrounds and Sources I
Carrie
Photograph of Emma Dreiser	374	(13)
Chicago Mail • He Cleaned Out the Safe	375	(1)
Chicago Tribune • Clerk and Cash	375	(1)
Chicago Mail • A Woman in the Case	376	(2)
Chicago Mail • A Dashing Blonde	378	(1)
Chicago Tribune • Hopkins Is Sorry	379	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • [Sisters and Suitors]	380	(4)
[Emma's Elopement]	384	(3)
Hurstwood
Theodore Dreiser • [Downfall in the City]	387	(4)
Drouet
George Ade • The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer	391	(4)
The City
Theodore Dreiser • [Chicago]	395	(2)
[New York]	397	(2)
Reflections	399	(4)
Curious Shifts of the Poor	403	(10)
The Strike
Theodore Dreiser • [A Street-Car Strike]	413	(1)
The Strike To-day	414	(10)
Backgrounds and Sources II
Composition
Theodore Dreiser • To H.L. Mencken (May 13, 1916)	424	(3)
Dorothy Dudley • [The Composition of Sister Carrie]	427	(1)
New York Herald • ``Sister Carrie'': Theodore Dreiser	428	(2)
Publication
Frank Norris • To Theodore Dreiser (May 28, 1900)	430	(1)
To Theodore Dreiser (June 8, 1900)	430	(1)
Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (June 9, 1900)	431	(1)
Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 14, 1900)	431	(2)
Frank Norris • To Arthur Henry (July 18, 1900)	433	(1)
Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)	433	(2)
Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)	435	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • To Arthur Henry (July 23, 1900)	436	(3)
To Walter H. Page (July 23, 1900)	439	(2)
Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (July 26, 1900)	441	(1)
To Theodore Dreiser (July 1900)	442	(1)
Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (August 2, 1900)	443	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • To Walter H. Page (August 6, 1900)	444	(2)
Arthur Henry • To Theodore Dreiser (August 1900?)	446	(1)
Walter H. Page • To Theodore Dreiser (August 15, 1900)	447	(1)
F.N. Doubleday • To Theodore Dreiser (Sept. 4, 1900)	447	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • To F.N. Doubleday (after Sept. 4, 1900)	448	(1)
To Frank Norris (December 1900)	449	(1)
Frank Norris • To Theodore Dreiser (January 28, 1901)	450	(2)
Legend
St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Author of Sister Carrie	452	(2)
S.A. Everitt • To Theodore Dreiser (February 9, 1905)	454	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • To Fremont Older (Nov. 27, 1923)	455	(4)
F.N. Doubleday • To Franklin Walker (May 4, 1931)	459	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie	459	(2)
Dorothy Dudley • [The ``Suppression'' Controversy]	461	(8)
Criticism
Theodore Dreiser • True Art Speaks Plainly	469	(1)
Otis Notman • Mr. Dreiser	470	(1)
Theodore Dreiser • To John Howard Lawson (Oct. 10, 1928)	471	(1)
Julian Markels • Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience	472	(7)
Ellen Moers • The Finesse of Dreiser	479	(9)
Robert Penn Warren • [Sister Carrie]	488	(9)
Philip Fisher • The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City	497	(13)
Amy Kaplan • The Sentimental Revolt of Sister Carrie	510	(11)
Alan Trachtenberg • Who Narrates? Dreiser's Presence in Sister Carrie	521	(16)
Kevin R. McNamara • The Ames of The Good Society: Sister Carrie and Social Engineering	537	(17)
Blanche H. Gelfant • What More Can Carrie Want? Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women	554	(19)
Donald Pizer • The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie	573	(11)
Cristina Ruotolo • ``Whence the Song:'' Voice and Audience in Dreiser's Sister Carrie	584	(21)
The Chronology of Sister Carrie	605	(2)
Selected Bibliography	607