.Foley Library Catalog
Three
Perspectives on the Men in the Street: Texts of William Dean Howells's
"The Midnight Platoon," Stephen Crane's "An Experiment in Misery," and
Theodore Dreiser's "Curious Shifts of the Poor" from Sister Carrie.
Hypertext
of Chapter 1 of Sister Carrie by Ashley Miller, English 462
Research Collections
The Sister
Carrie Website at the University of Pennsylvania contains the
text of the novel, facsimiles of the typescript, and essays on the work
by distinguished Dreiser scholars. The general page for the
DreiserWebSource at this site includes photographs and a short movie
(in color) of Dreiser at Iroki. It also includes essays
on and lists of books in Dreiser's library.
Dreiser
papers at the Indiana Historical Society
Dreiser
papers at the University of Pennsylvania
A Guide to the Theodore Dreiser Collection
at the University of Virginia
6220-k6220-l
6220-m6220-n
James
D. Mooney papers at Georgetown
The "Three
Cities" project contains multimedia essays on Chicago and New York
from 1870-1930; it uses Sister Carrie in several essay segments.
The Theodore
Dreiser segment of C-SPAN's American writers series aired on 20 and
24 August 2001.
Sites
Bibliography
from Paul Reuben's Perspectives on American Literature site
Biographical
sketch at the University of Pennsylvania
International
Theodore Dreiser Society (image courtesy of this site)
The
Chester Gillette case that inspired An American Tragedy
Information
on teaching "Typhoon" by Dreiser editors and scholars James M. Hutchisson
and James L. W. West III. (Georgetown-Heath anthology site).
Information
and study questions on "Old Rogaum and his Theresa" from the Norton
Anthology site
Sister
Carrie (1900)
Sister
Carrie (1900) (HTML from the Crossroads site at the University
of Virginia)
The
Financier (text from Project Gutenberg)
The
Titan (Project Gutenberg)
"Whence
the Song" from The Color of a Great City (New York: Boni &
Liveright, 1923)
Chapter
14 ("The Church and Wealth in America) from Tragic America
If you've ever wondered just how bad Dora Thorne is (according
to Ames in Sister Carrie), it's available at
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2374