Sister Carrie: An Authoritative Text,

Theodore Dreiser's first and perhaps most accessible novel, Sister Carrie is an epic of urban life - the story of an innocent heroine adrift in an indifferent city. When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face.

Preface to the Second Edition

viii

(2)

A Note on the Text

x

The Text of Sister Carrie

1

(384)

Appendix: Passages Cut by Dreiser and Arthur Henry in the Typescript Version of Sister Carrie

371

(14)

Backgrounds and Sources I

385

(50)

CARRIE

387

(11)

Chicago Mail He Cleaned Out the Safe

388

(1)

Chicago Tribune Clerk and Cash

388

(1)

Chicago Mail A Woman in the Case

389

(2)

Chicago Mail A Dashing Blonde

391

(1)

Chicago Tribune Hopkins Is Sorry

392

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

[Sisters and Suitors]

393

(3)

Theodore Dreiser

[Emma's Elopement]

396

(2)

HURSTWOOD

398

(4)

Theodore Dreiser

[Downfall in the City]

398

(4)

DROUET

402

(4)

George Ade

The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer

402

(4)

THE CITY

406

(21)

Theodore Dreiser

[Chicago]

406

(2)

Theodore Dreiser

[New York]

408

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

Reflections

409

(4)

Theodore Dreiser

[Balzac's Paris and Pittsburgh]

413

(2)

Theodore Dreiser

Curious Shifts of the Poor

415

(9)

Theodore Dreiser

The Man on the Sidewalk

424

(3)

THE STRIKE

427

(8)

Theodore Dreiser

[A Street-Car Strike]

427

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

The Strike To-Day

428

(7)

Backgrounds and Sources II

435

(44)

COMPOSITION

437

(6)

Theodore Dreiser

To H. L. Mencken (May 13, 1916)

438

(2)

Dorothy Dudley

[The Composition of Sister Carrie]

440

(1)

New York Herald "Sister Carrie": Theodore Dreiser

441

(2)

PUBLICATION

443

(21)

Frank Norris

To Theodore Dreiser (May 28, 1900)

444

(1)

Frank Norris

To Theodore Dreiser (June 8, 1900)

444

(1)

Walter H. Page

To Theodore Dreiser (June 9, 1900)

445

(1)

Arthur Henry

To Theodore Dreiser (July 14, 1900)

445

(2)

Frank Norris

To Arthur Henry (July 18, 1900)

447

(1)

Arthur Henry

To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)

447

(2)

Walter H. Page

To Theodore Dreiser (July 19, 1900)

449

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

To Arthur Henry (July 23, 1900)

450

(2)

Theodore Dreiser

To Walter H. Page (July 23, 1900)

452

(3)

Arthur Henry

To Theodore Dreiser (July 26, 1900)

455

(1)

Arthur Henry

To Theodore Dreiser (July 1900)

455

(1)

Walter H. Page

To Theodore Dreiser (August 2, 1900)

456

(2)

Theodore Dreiser

To Walter H. Page (August 6, 1900)

458

(1)

Arthur Henry

To Theodore Dreiser (August 1900)

459

(1)

Walter H. Page

To Theodore Dreiser (August 15, 1900)

460

(1)

F. N. Doubleday

To Theodore Dreiser (September 4, 1900)

460

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

To F. N. Doubleday (after September 4, 1900)

461

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

To Frank Norris (December 1900)

462

(1)

Frank Norris

To Theodore Dreiser (January 28, 1901)

462

(2)

LEGEND

464

(15)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author of Sister Carrie

465

(2)

S. A. Everitt

To Theodore Dreiser (February 9, 1905)

467

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

To Fremont Older (November 27, 1923)

468

(3)

F. N. Doubleday

To Franklin Walker (May 4, 1931)

471

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie

471

(2)

Dorothy Dudley

[The "Suppression" Controversy]

473

(6)

Criticism

479

(97)

Theodore Dreiser

True Art Speaks Plainly

481

(1)

Otis Notman

Mr. Dreiser

482

(1)

Theodore Dreiser

To John Howard Lawson

483

(1)

Charles C. Walcutt

Theodore Dreiser: The Wonder and Terror of Life

484

(12)

Kenneth S. Lynn

[Sister Carrie: An Introduction]

496

(8)

Julian Markels

Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience

504

(13)

Ellen Moers

The Finesse of Dreiser

517

(8)

Ellen Moers

The Blizzard

525

(9)

Robert Penn Warren

[Sister Carrie]

534

(9)

Donald Pizer

Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Approach Through Form

543

(6)

Philip Fisher

The Life History of Objects: The Naturalist Novel and the City

549

(11)

Robert Shulman

Dreiser and the Dynamics of American Capitalism

560

(16)

The Chronology of Sister Carrie

576

(2)

Selected Bibliography

578

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