Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2018

Publication Title

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications that Shaped the City and its Image

Pages

58-59

Publisher Name

The University of Chicago Press Books

Publisher Location

Chicago, IL

Abstract

Facing the naturalistic, nonjudgmental rendering in Sister Carrie of the stresses of survival in Chicago and New York was seen by some as scandalous. Nonetheless, Theodore Dreiser’s first novel eventually became an American classic and has been published in countless editions. The Heritage edition (1937) includes illustrations by Reginald Marsh (1898– 1954), including one in which the main character, a country girl on a train bound for Chicago, is approached by a salesman whose mistress she will eventually become.

Identifier

9780226468501

Comments

Author Posting. © The University of Chicago 2018. This chapter is posted here by permission of The University of Chicago for personal use, not for redistribution. The chapter was published in Chicago by the Book, 2018, pp. 58-59, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo28751879.html

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