{"product_id":"theodore-dreiser-recalled-9781800859593","title":"Theodore Dreiser Recalled","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheodore Dreiser (1871–1946) has long been recognized as a pivotal figure in twentieth-century American literary and cultural history. His fiction played (and still plays) a major role in the vigorous debate over the relationship of art to social reality and political purpose, and his complex and compelling personality has always attracted much attention. From about 1912–15 to his death he was often considered the greatest American writer of the period. Theodore Dreiser Recalled collects for the first time commentary on this literary giant by those of his own time who knew him well. The book includes seventy-six recollections by friends, lovers, and literary associates, ranging in time of publication from 1912 to 1995. Presented with both expert and general readers in mind, the book not only clarifies and extends our knowledge of many aspects of Dreiser’s life and career but also makes excellent reading. In their various ways—from H. L. Mencken’s acerbic accounts of their friendship to one of Edgar Lee Masters’s most powerful poems to Kirah Markham’s bittersweet memories of their affair and to Esther McCoy’s compelling narrative of Dreiser’s death—the recollections demonstrate Dreiser’s ability to move others to recall him not only in full detail but with panache.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Touching on the entire spectrum of the author’s controversial life and career, \u003ci\u003eTheodore Dreiser Recalled\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read not only for Dreiserians but for anyone interested in a multiperspectival portrayal of a watershed figure in US realism and naturalism.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKlaus H. Schmidt, \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Naturalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews ‘Riveting reading… the continually changing perspectives on Dreiser from different subject positions convey a dynamic and complex personality… \u003ci\u003eTheodore Dreiser Recalled\u003c\/i\u003e is best read in book reviewer fashion, cover to cover.’\u003cbr\u003e Clare Eby, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Personal Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 1 Portraits of Dreiser\u003cbr\u003e Sherwood Anderson\u003cbr\u003e Ernest Boyd\u003cbr\u003e Louise Campbell\u003cbr\u003e Dorothy Dudley\u003cbr\u003e Max Eastman\u003cbr\u003e Ralph Fabri\u003cbr\u003e Waldo Frank\u003cbr\u003e Mike Gold\u003cbr\u003e Harris Merton Lyon\u003cbr\u003e Kirah Markham\u003cbr\u003e Edgar Lee Masters\u003cbr\u003e H. L. Mencken\u003cbr\u003e George Jean Nathan\u003cbr\u003e John Cowper Powys\u003cbr\u003e Edward H. Smith\u003cbr\u003e Marguerite Tjader\u003cbr\u003eSection 2 Relations with Women\u003cbr\u003e Sara (“Jug”) White Dreiser\u003cbr\u003e Thelma Cudlipp\u003cbr\u003e Kirah Markham\u003cbr\u003e Louise Campbell\u003cbr\u003e Helen Dreiser\u003cbr\u003e Yvette Szekely Eastman\u003cbr\u003e Clara Clark Jaeger\u003cbr\u003e Marguerite Tjader\u003cbr\u003eSection 3 Homes\u003cbr\u003e Greenwich Village\u003cbr\u003e Rodin Studios, West 57th St.\u003cbr\u003e Iroki, Mt. Kisco\u003cbr\u003e 1015 N. Kings Road, Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003eSection 4 Final Years\u003cbr\u003e Marguerite Tjader\u003cbr\u003e Helen Dreiser\u003cbr\u003e Esther McCoy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Career and Beliefs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 5 Social and Political Activism\u003cbr\u003e Russian Journey\u003cbr\u003e The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners\u003cbr\u003e Harlan\u003cbr\u003e Dreiser’s Anti-Semitism\u003cbr\u003e Dreiser and the Communist Party\u003cbr\u003eSection 6 Magazine Editor\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEv’ry Month\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Delineator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e American Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSection 7 The Craft of Writing\u003cbr\u003e George Jean Nathan\u003cbr\u003e Ludwig Lewisohn\u003cbr\u003e Floyd Dell\u003cbr\u003e Helen Dreiser\u003cbr\u003e Clara Clark Jaeger\u003cbr\u003eSection 8 Literary Friendships\u003cbr\u003e Richard Duffy\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Henry\u003cbr\u003e Sinclair Lewis\u003cbr\u003e Edgar Lee Masters\u003cbr\u003e H. L. Mencken\u003cbr\u003eSection 9 Relations with Publishers and Movie Producers\u003cbr\u003e Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Co. (Sister Carrie Suppression)\u003cbr\u003e John Lane Co. (The “Genius” Suppression)\u003cbr\u003e Horace Liveright\u003cbr\u003e Paramount Films\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBiographical Glossary of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContents List in Order of Date of Authorship or Publication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography of Recollections of Dreiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470073336151,"sku":"9781800859593","price":32.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800859593.jpg?v=1744897317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/theodore-dreiser-recalled-9781800859593","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}