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The Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser is one of the most penetrating observers of the greatest period of social change the United States ever saw. Writing as America emerged as the world's wealthiest nation, Dreiser chronicled industrial and economic transformation and the birth of consumerism with an unmatched combination of detail, sympathy, and power. The specially commissioned essays collected in this volume are written by a leading team of scholars of American literature and culture. They establish parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Dreiser. This Companion provides fresh perspectives on the frequently read classics, Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, as well as on topics of perennial interest, such as Dreiser's representation of the city and his prose style. The volume investigates topics such as his representation of masculinity and femininity, and his treatment of ethnicity. It is the most comprehensive introduction to Dreiser's work available.
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Beyond Protest: The Street as Humanitarian Narrative
W E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (94) Although discussion of Ann Petry's The Street (1946) has moved beyond its initial circumscription within a narrow definition of naturalistic protest fiction-often by reference to Richard Wright's Native Son, a comparison that has not generally worked in Petry's favorinterpreters continue to concentrate on issues associated with that literary mode. Insofar as reading is a central trope of personhood in African American literature from the slave narrative onward, Lutie's doubting her humanity sounds an especially dismal note.2 Most critics look to the environment to explain the pervasive sense of demoralization.
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Veblen's Assault on Time
A large body of work examines Thorstein Veblen's conception of time; in particular, economists and historians continue to debate the usefulness and consistency of the evolutionary underpinning of his work. After clarifying the vantage point to be adopted - in particular, the focus on regressive habits and institutions, rather than on the progressive machine process - Veblen's analysis of how misrepresentations of time underwrite various methods of social control are taken up.
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Thorstein Veblen and the Rhetoric of Authority
Thorstein Veblen is both a social scientist and a social critic. Advancing detached, empirical observation and engaged, often satirical interpretation, Veblen's works exist truly between literature and science.
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