Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-m42fx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-17T07:58:57.878Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Theodore Dreiser and the Tragedy of the Twenties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2009

Robert H. Elias
Get access

Extract

An American Tragedy is by general agreement Theodore Dreiser's major accomplishment. From Stuart Pratt Sherman and Joseph Wood Krutch to Robert Penn Warren and Ellen Moers, reviewers, critics, and scholars have praised its tragic impact, its moral effect, its technical artistry, its psychological depth.

Type
An American Tragedy: A 50th Anniversary
Information
Prospects , Volume 1 , October 1976 , pp. 9 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)