Dreiser's Jennie Gerhardt
Subtitle: New Essays on the Restored Text
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: October 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812215137
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Criticism, Textual; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; USA; American - General; 1871-1945; 1871-1945.; Dreiser, Theodore,; Jennie Gerhardt
First sentence: IN PRESENTING DREISER WITH THE American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit in 1944, Professor Chauncey B. Tinker began his citation with the explanation that the Academy was "Janus-faced, looking before and after.... Its aim is to seek out and reward ability wherever it appears and in whatever guise" (Tinker I).