Theodore Dreiser's An American tragedy
Subtitle: a documentary volume
By: edited by Donald Pizer
Series: Dictionary of literary biography -- v. 361
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780787681791
Notes: "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dreiser and the American tragedy archetype; title: The Horatio Alger myth of success; title: Dreiser and the Alger myth; title: The "miss rich/miss poor" type of crime; title: Murder in the north woods: the Chester Gillette-Grace Brown case; title: The social background; title: The traditional conservative social base; title: The new 1920s ethos; title: New ideas: mechanism and Freudianism; title: Composition, publication, and reviews; title: Composition; title: Publication; title: Reviews; title: Theater and film adaptations; title: Play adaptations; title: Film adaptations; title: The question of Clyde's guilt.