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Dreiser, Theodore

  1. In Allen, Walter. Tradition and Dream. London: Hogarth, 1986. pp. 81-86.
    Criticism -- Works

  2. In Becker, George J. Documents of Modern Literary Realism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963. pp. 452-464.
    Criticism -- Works -- Naturalism in Literature

  3. In Berryman, John. Freedom of the Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. pp. 185-196.
    Criticism -- Biography -- The Titan

  4. In Bloom, Harold, ed. American Naturalism. Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004. pp. 145-159.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  5. In Bryer, Jackson, ed. Fifteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1969. pp. 101-138.
    Criticism -- Biography -- Works

  6. In Burgum, Edwin Berry. The Novel and the World's Dilemma. Russell & Russell, 1963, [c1947]. pp. 95-119.
    Criticism -- Works -- An American Tragedy -- Jennie Gerhardt-- Sister Carrie

  7. In Cowley, Malcolm, ed. After the Genteel Tradition: American Writers, 1910-1930. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1964. pp. 21-27.
    Criticism -- Works

  8. In Delbanco, Andrew. Required Reading. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. pp. 133-154.
    Criticism -- Works -- Jennie Gerhardt -- Sister Carrie

  9. In Edgar, Pelham. The Art of the Novel. New York: Macmillan, 1933. pp. 244-254.
    Criticism -- Works

  10. In Fisher, Philip. Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. pp. 128-178.
    Criticism -- An American Tragedy -- Sister Carrie

  11. In Fleischman, Fritz, ed. American Novelists Revisited. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982. pp. 241-264.
    Criticism -- Works -- Women in Literature -- An American Tragedy -- The Financier -- A Gallery of Women -- Jennie Gerhardt -- Sister Carrie

  12. In Gardiner, Harold G., ed. Fifty Years of the American Novel. New York: Scribner, 1951. pp. 33-48.
    Criticism -- Works -- Naturalism in Literature

  13. In Geismar, Maxwell. Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890-1915: Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Ellen Glasgow, Theodore Dreiser. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. pp. 287-379.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  14. In Gelfant, Blanche. The American City Novel. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1954. pp. 43-94.
    Criticism -- Works -- Sister Carrie

  15. In Gleason, William A. The Leisure Ethic. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999. pp. 272-287, plus see index.
    Criticism -- An American Tragedy

  16. In Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature. New York: Random House, 1974. pp. 190-193.
    Criticism -- An American Tragedy

  17. In Hatcher, Harlan. Creating the Modern American Novel. New York: Russell & Russell, 1965, [c1962]. pp. 34-57.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works

  18. In Howe, Irving. Decline of the New. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1970. pp. 137-150.
    Criticism -- Works -- An American Tragedy

  19. In Kazin, Alfred. Alred Kazin's America. New York : HarperCollins, c2003. pp. 73-80.
    Criticism -- Works

  20. In Kazin, Alfred. An American Procession. New York: Knopf, 1984. pp. 235-245.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  21. In Kazin, Alfred. Contemporaries. Boston: Little, Brown, [1962] pp. 87-99.
    Criticism -- Works

  22. In Litratura SShA dvadtsatogo veka. 20th Century American Literature. Moscow : Progress Publishers, 1976. pp. 223-240.
    Criticism -- An American Tragedy

  23. In Litz, A. Walton. Modern American Fiction: Essays in Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. pp. 45-71.
    Criticism -- Works

  24. In Martin, Jay. Harvests of Change. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1967. pp. 252-263.
    Criticism -- Works

  25. In Mencken, H. L. The American Scene, a Reader. New York: Knopf, 1965. pp. 111-156.
    Criticism -- Works

  26. In Mencken, H.L. H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press, 1968. pp. 244-256.
    Criticism -- A Hoosier Holiday -- Jennie Gerhardt

  27. In Millgate, Michael. American Social Fiction: James to Cozzens. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1964. pp. 67-86.
    Criticism -- Works -- The Titan

  28. In Muller, Herbert. Modern Fiction. New York and London, Funk & Wagnalls Company 1937. pp. 203-217.
    Criticism -- Works --

  29. In Noble, David W. The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden. New York: Braziller, 1968. pp. 124-132.
    Criticism -- Works

  30. In Panichas, George, ed. The Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists. New York, Hawthorn Books, 1971. pp. 231-250.
    Criticism -- Works

  31. Pitofsky, Alex. "Dreiser's The Financier" In Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 44, No. 2, Fall 1998. pp. 276-290.
    Criticism -- The Financier

  32. In Pizer, Donald. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. arbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1984. pp. 17-22, 28-60, plus see index.
    Criticism -- Works -- American Tragedy -- Jennie Gerhardt -- "Nigger Jeff" -- Sister Carrie -- "A Victim of Justice"

  33. In Poirier, Richard. A World Elsewhere. New York, Oxford University Press, 1966. pp. 235-252.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  34. In Rahv, Philip. Literature in America. New York: Meridian Books, 1957. pp. 323-333.
    Criticism -- Works -- Sister Carrie

  35. In Schneider, Robert W. Five Novelists of the Progressive Era. New York: Columbia University Press, 1965. pp. 153-204.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- Sister Carrie -- The Financier -- The Titan -- The Genius

  36. In Shapiro, Charles. Twelve Original Essays on Great American Novels. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1958. pp. 177-195.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie -- Jennie Gerhardt

  37. In Skillion, Anne. Introducing the Great American Novel. New York: W. Morrow, c1988. pp. 119-126.
    Criticism -- An American Tragedy

  38. In Snell, George. The Shapers of American Fiction, 1798-1947. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1961, [c1947]. pp. 233-248.
    Criticism -- Works

  39. In Stegner, Wallace, ed. The American Novel: From James Fenimore Cooper to William Faulkner. New York: Basic Books, [1965]. pp. 106-116.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  40. In Taylor, Gordon O. The Passages of Thought: Psychological Representation in the American Novel, 1870-1900. New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. pp. 145-157.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  41. In Thorp, Willard. American Writing in the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1960. pp. 164-168.
    Criticism -- Works -- Sister Carrie

  42. In Van Doren, Carl. The American Novel, 1789-1939. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940. pp. 245-259.
    Biography -- Criticism -- Works -- An American Tragedy -- Sister Carrie

  43. In Walcutt, Charles Child. American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c1956. pp. 180-221.
    Criticism -- Works -- An American Tragedy -- The Financer --Jennie Gerhardt -- Sister Carrie -- The Stoic -- The Titan

  44. In Wegelin, Christof, ed. The American Novel: Criticism and Background Readings. New York, Free Press, 1971. pp. 307-340.
    Criticism -- Sister Carrie

  45. In Ziff, Larzer. The American 1890's. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1979, c1966. pp. 334-348.
    Criticism -- Novels -- Sister Carrie

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