Description
This book brings together for the first time, published and unpublished memoirs about the American novelist Theodore Dreiser. The recollections of Dreiser's contemporaries bring to the fore the writer's politics, personal life, and literary reception. Donald Pizer is one of the world's leading scholars of Dreiser and of naturalism.
'Touching on the entire spectrum of the author’s controversial life and career, Theodore Dreiser Recalled is a must read not only for Dreiserians but for anyone interested in a multiperspectival portrayal of a watershed figure in US realism and naturalism.'
Klaus H. Schmidt, Studies in American Naturalism
Reviews ‘Riveting reading… the continually changing perspectives on Dreiser from different subject positions convey a dynamic and complex personality… Theodore Dreiser Recalled is best read in book reviewer fashion, cover to cover.’
Clare Eby, American Literary Realism
Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus, Tulane University.