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Engaging Dreiser

Edited by Klaus H. Schmidt.

The Book is structured by four chapters: Part I: Theodore Dreiser's Family Background: Studies in Biography and Autobiographical Self-Discovery. Part II: Dreiser Abroad: Analyzing Literary Themes, Narrative Structures, and Cultural Imagology; Part III: Dreiser in Literary Criticism: Review Articles and Entries in Specialized Encyclopedias; Part IV: Dreiser's Writings in Flux: Studies in the History of the Book, Literary Translation, Intertextuality, and Scholarly Editing. - Contents: Engaging Dreiser: A Selected Bibliography, 1967-2007. -- Dreiser on the European Continent. Part One: Theodore Dreiser, the German Dreisers, and Germany. - Personal, Ethnic, and National Identity: Theodore Dreiser's Difficult Heritage. -- Dreiser's English Virgil. - Central Europe in Travelogues by Theodore Dreiser: Images of Berlin and Vienna. - Theodore Dreiser's European Encounters: The Case of Oxford. - Late Educations: Henry Adams and Theodore Dreiser Look at Russia. - The Shock of the Ancestral Quest: Theodore Dreiser's "A Traveler at Forty" and Cynthia Ozick's "The Messiah of Stockholm". - Dreiser's Diaristic Mode. -- Review of "Identität und Rolle bei Theodore Dreiser" (1991). - "American Diaries". - "Dreiser's Russian Diary". - Richards, (Franklin Thomas) Grant. - "A Traveler at Forty". - Review of "Schwester Carrie" (2004). - Review of "Pleasing to the »I«" (2006). -- Dreiser on the European Continent. Part Two: The Reception of Dreiser in Western Europe. - Same or Other: Reading the German-Language Translation of "Sister Carrie". - The Thousand and Second Nights in 19th-century American Writing: Echoes in the Works of Irving, Poe, Twain, and Dreiser. - From Travel Guide to Autobiography: Recovering the Original of "A Traveler at Forty". - Textual Commentary: Editorial Principles. - Historical Commentary: The Composition and Publication of "A Traveler at Forty". XIV,311 Seiten, gebunden (American Studies; Vol. 192/Universitätsverlag Winter 2010)