Dreiser's jennie Gerhardt: New Essays on the Restored Text
In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser's second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author's intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a less thoughtful, less womanly character. The restored edition brings back the sexual charge, reinstates the social and religious criticism, and makes the language Dreiser's again.This volume brings together 19 fresh readings, together with an introducti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8122-1513-7
- EAN: 9780812215137
- Produktnummer: 1667831
- Verlag: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.5 cm 367 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 367
Über den Autor
Biographer, book historian, and scholarly editor, James L. W. West III is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
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