附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Gender studies: women and Dreiser: Dreiser and the discourse of gender / Shelley Fisher Fishkin -- Sexualizing the female body: Dreiser, feminism, and Foucault / Irene Gammel -- Recontextualizing Dreiser: gender, class, and sexuality in Jennie Gerhardt / Nancy Warner Barrineau -- Gender studies: men and Dreiser: The secrets of fraternity: men and friendship in Sister Carrie / Scott Zaluda -- Psychonanlysis and Dreiser: "That oldest boy don't wanta be here": fathers and sons and the dynamics of shame in Theodore Dreiser's novels / Miriam Gogol -- Lacanian equivocation in Sister Carrie, The genius, and An American tragedy / Leonard Cassuto -- Philosophy: On language and the quest for self-fulfillment: a Heideggerian perspective on Dreiser's Sister Carrie / Paul A. Orlov -- Film studies: Squandered possibilities: the film versions of Dreiser's novels / Lawrence E. Hussman -- Popular literature: Carrie's library: reading the boundaries between popular and serious fiction / M. H. Dunlop -- New historicism: Sister Carrie's absent causes / James Livingston.