This Norton Critical Edition again features the 1900 Doubleday, Page text of the novel. The text is fully annotated to reveal the author's use of actual persons and places in both Chicago and New York. The novel is preceded by "A Note on the ext," which discusses the relationship between this edition's text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition ( 1981 ), and by the "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, as in the last edition, gener-ous excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies and elsewhere that per sonally link the author to his novel. A docmnentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H. Page, and E. N. Doubleday, discusses the leg-endary supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher.
"Criticism" includes thirteen essays that principally seek to iden-tify Dreiser's distinctive literary naturalism, the novel's relationship to American culture, Dreiser's narrative technique, the role of women in Sister Carrie, and the novel's gender and class issues.
New to the Third Edition are essays byAmy Kaplan, Alan Trachten-berg, Kevin R. McNamara, Blanche H. Gelfant, Donald Pizer, andChristina Ruotolo.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
作者简介:DONALD PIZER is Pierce Butler Professor of English Emer-itus at Tulane University. He is the author of The Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, and The Novels of Frank Nor-ris. He is the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of McTeague and The Red Badge of Courage as well as numer-ous volumes of the works of Theodore Dreiser, Frank Nor-ris, Stephen Crane, Jack London, John Dos Passos, and Hamlin Garland.
【目录】
Preface to the Third Edition
A Note on the Text
The Text of Sister Carrie
Appendix: Passages Cut by Dreiser and Arthur Henry in the Typescript Version of Sister Carrie
Backgrounds and Sources I
CARRIE
Photograph of Emma Dreiser
Chicago Mail·He Cleaned Out the Safe
Chicago Tribune·Clerk and Cash
Chicago Mail ·A Woman in the Case
Chicago Mail·A Dashing Blonde
Chicago Tribune·Hopkins Is Sorry
Theodore Dreiser·[Sisters and Suitors]
HURSTWOOD
Theodore Dreiser·[Downfall in the City]
DROUET
George Ade·The Fable of the Two Mandolin Player and the Willing Performer
THE CITY
Theodore Dreiser·[Chicago]
THE STRIKE
Theodore Dreiser·[A Street-Car Strike]
Backgrounds and Sources II
COMPOSITION
Theodore Dreiser·To H. L. Mencken (May 13, 1916)
Dorothy Dudley·[The Composition of Sister Carrie]
New York Herald·"Sister Carrie": Theodore Dreiser
PUBLICATION
Frank Norris·To Theodore Dreiser (May 28, 1900)
Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (June 9, 1900)
Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 14, 1900)
Frank Norris·To Arthur Henry (july 18, 1900)
Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)
Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (july 19, 1900)
Theodore Dreiser·To Arthur Henry (July 23, 1900)
Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (July 26, 1900)
Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (August 2, 1900)
Theodore Dreiser·To Walter H. Page (August 6, 1900)
Arthur Henry·To Theodore Dreiser (August 19007)
Walter H. Page·To Theodore Dreiser (August 15, 1900)
F. N. Doubleday·To Theodore Dreiser (Sept. 4, 1900)
Theodore Dreiser·To F. N. Doubleday(after Sept. 4, 1900)
Frank Norris·To Theodore Dreiser (January 28, 1901)
LEGEND
St. Louis Post-Dispatch·Author of Sister Carrie
S. A. Everitt·To Theodore Dreiser (February 9, 1905)
Theodore Dreiser·To Fremont Older (Nov. 27, 1923)
F. N. Doubleday·To Franklin Walker (May 4, 1931)
Theodore Dreiser·The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie
Dorothy Dudley·[The "Suppression" Controversy]
Criticism
Theodore Dreiser·True Art Speaks Plainly
Otis Notman·Mr. Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser·To John Howard Lawson(Oct. 10, 1928)
Julian Markels·Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience
Ellen Moers·The Finesse of Dreiser
Robert Penn Warren·[Sister Carrie]
Philip Fisher·The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City
Amy Kaplan·The Sentimental Revolt of Sister Carrie
Alan Trachtenberg·Who Narrates? Dreiser's Presence Sister Carrie
Kevin R. McNamara·The Ames of The Good Society:Sister Carrie and Social Engineering
Blanche H. Gelfant·What More Can Carrie Want?Naturalistic Ways of Consuming Women
Donald Pizer·The Problem of American Literary Naturalism and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
Cristina Ruotolo·"Whence the Song:" Voice and Audience in Dreiser's Sister Carrie
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