Introduction
Chronology
Part I Background and Contexts
1 Dreiser and the profession of authorship James L. W. West III
2 Dreiser and the uses of biography Thomas P. Riggio
3 Dreiser's style Paul Giles
4 Dreiser and the history of American longing Jackson Lears
Part II Dreiser and his Culture
5 The matter of Dreiser's modernity Bill Brown
6 Dreiser, class, and the home Catherine Jurca
7 Dreiser and the ideology of upward mobility Bruce Robbins
8 Dreiser, art, and the museum Miles Orvell
9 Dreiser and women Clare Virginia Eby
10 Sister Carrie, race, and the World's Columbian Exposition Christopher Gair
11 Dreiser's sociological vision Priscilla Wald
12 Dreiser and crime Leonard Cassuto