LEADER 03801nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910821186903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-92911-X 010 $a1-59734-941-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520929111 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030702 035 $a(EBL)227336 035 $a(OCoLC)475933867 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189486 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11179764 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189486 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10156247 035 $a(PQKB)10831419 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227336 035 $a(DE-B1597)518787 035 $a(OCoLC)58728541 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520929111 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227336 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075632 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030702 100 $a20040712d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe last titan $ea life of Theodore Dreiser /$fJerome Loving 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (530 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-23481-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHoosier hard times -- A very bard of a city -- This matter of reporting -- Survival of the fittest -- Editorial days -- The writer -- Sister Carrie -- Down hill and up -- Return of the novelist -- Life after the Titanic -- The genius himself -- Back to the future -- An American tragedy -- Celebrity -- Tragic America -- Facing West -- Selected works of Theodore Dreiser. 330 $aWhen Theodore Dreiser first published Sister Carrie in 1900 it was suppressed for its seamy plot, colloquial language, and immorality-for, as one reviewer put it, its depiction of "the godless side of American life." It was a side of life experienced firsthand by Dreiser, whose own circumstances often paralleled those of his characters in the turbulent, turn-of-the-century era of immigrants, black lynchings, ruthless industrialists, violent labor movements, and the New Woman. This masterful critical biography, the first on Dreiser in more than half a century, is the only study to fully weave Dreiser's literary achievement into the context of his life. Jerome Loving gives us a Dreiser for a new generation in a brilliant evocation of a writer who boldly swept away Victorian timidity to open the twentieth century in American literature. Dreiser was a controversial figure in his time, not only because of his literary efforts, which included publication of the brutal and heartbreaking An American Tragedy in 1925, but also because of his personal life, which featured numerous sexual liaisons, included membership in the communist party, merited a 180-page FBI file, and ended in Hollywood. The Last Titan paints a full portrait of the mature Dreiser between the two world wars-through the roaring twenties, the stock market crash, and the Depression-and describes his contact with important figures from Emma Goldman and H.L. Mencken to two presidents Roosevelt. Tracing Dreiser's literary roots in Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, and especially Whitman, Loving has written what will surely become the standard biography of one of America's best novelists. 606 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aNovelists, American 615 0$aJournalists 676 $a813/.52 676 $aB 686 $aHU 3525$2rvk 700 $aLoving$b Jerome$f1941-$0699911 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821186903321 996 $aThe last titan$94003827 997 $aUNINA