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A kinetoscope film of turn-of-the-century Chicago, the initial setting of Sister Carrie. Sister Carrie is a 1900 novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior, but later becomes a famous ...
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (/ ˈ d r aɪ s ər,-z ər /; [1] August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. [2]
[1] Known for challenging the "prevailing trends of postmodernist theory," Michaels has produced works connecting postmodernism, neoliberal capitalism , and socioeconomic inequality . [ 2 ] Two of his best-known books are Our America: Nativism, Modernism and Pluralism (1995) and The Shape of the Signifier: 1967 to the End of History (2004) [ 3 ...
Wright's protest novel was an immediate best-seller, selling 250,000 hardcover copies within three weeks of its publication by the Book-of-the-Month Club on March 1, 1940. It was one of the earliest successful attempts to explain the racial divide in America in terms of the social conditions imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white ...
In Book I, Eugene Witla (like Sister Carrie, in Dreiser's earlier novel) escapes the confines of the small town in Illinois where he has been raised to make his way in Chicago. There he studies painting at the Chicago Art Institute and enjoys the excitement of the city and his first sexual experiences.
Dreiser first entitled his novel The Transgressor, before abandoning it in 1903, because of a nervous breakdown. [1] He took it up again in 1910 [1] He is believed to have based his character of Jennie on elements of his sisters Mame and Sylvia. [2] Years later in an interview with Claude Bowers, Dreiser said that he did not really like this ...
An American Tragedy is a 1925 novel by American writer Theodore Dreiser.He began the manuscript in the summer of 1920, but a year later abandoned most of that text. It was based on the notorious murder of Grace Brown in 1906 and the trial of her lover, Chester Gillette.
The book provides a critical look at Daley's rise to power and at Chicago's political culture of "clout." [ 39 ] American Pharaoh (Cohen and Taylor) is a scholarly treatment of the same subject. Studs Terkel 's Working (1974) is a series of interviews with American workers.