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Political Writings
Theodore Dreiser
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Description for Political Writings
Hardback. The first published collection of the esteemed novelist's prolific political works Editor(s): Davies, Jude; Simons, Margaret A.; Timmermann, Marybeth. Series: Beauvoir Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 8 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: DN; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics, which he did prolifically. Although he is remembered primarily as a novelist, the majority of his twenty-seven books were nonfiction treatises. To Dreiser, everything was political. His sense for the hype and hypocrisies of politics took shape in reasoned but emphatic ruminations in his fiction and nonfiction on the hopes and disappointments of democracy, the temptations of nationalism and communism, the threat and trumpets of war, and the role of writers in resisting and advancing political ideas. Spanning a ... Read more
Theodore Dreiser staked his reputation on fearless expression in his fiction, but he never was more outspoken than when writing about American politics, which he did prolifically. Although he is remembered primarily as a novelist, the majority of his twenty-seven books were nonfiction treatises. To Dreiser, everything was political. His sense for the hype and hypocrisies of politics took shape in reasoned but emphatic ruminations in his fiction and nonfiction on the hopes and disappointments of democracy, the temptations of nationalism and communism, the threat and trumpets of war, and the role of writers in resisting and advancing political ideas. Spanning a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Beauvoir Series
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035852
SKU
V9780252035852
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About Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was a major American novelist of powerful and unstinting realism. His career peaked with a sequence of masterpieces, including Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, and An American Tragedy.Jude Davies is a professor of American literature and culture at the University of Winchester. He is the coauthor of Gender, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Film and ... Read more
Reviews for Political Writings
"This expertly edited collection will give general readers and specialists interested in Theodore Dreiser a fresh and timely new context for thinking about the author. The selections here and insights by Jude Davies provide new grounds for understanding Dreiser as an American writer of the highest importance."
Clare Virginia Eby, editor of Theodore Dreiser's The Genius and author of Dreiser and ... Read more
Clare Virginia Eby, editor of Theodore Dreiser's The Genius and author of Dreiser and ... Read more