Art, Music, And Literature, 1897-1902
About the Book
Before coming to national attention for his novel Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902 collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful articles and interviews with American artists, musicians, and writers during this period. His profiles and interviews include such notables as Alfred Stieglitz, William Dean Howells, and legendary impresario Major James Burton Pond, as well as numerous women artists, novelists, and musicians. The volume is liberally seasoned with period illustrations reproduced from the original publications, and Yoshinobu Hakutani's notes provide biographical details about Dreiser's various subjects.About the Author
Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), the leading American literary figure of the early twentieth century, is best known for novels including Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, The Titan, and An American Tragedy. Yoshinobu Hakutani, professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at Kent State University, is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Theodore Dreiser's Uncollected Magazine Articles, 1897-1902, Theodore Dreiser and American Culture: New Readings, and Young Dreiser: A Critical Study.Also by this author
Reviews
"An extraordinarily interested observer, Dreiser searched everywhere for hidden talent, as if personally charged with refuting arguments about deficiencies in U.S. culture. His appreciation of figures such as Stieglitz, Amelia Barr, Lillian Nordica, John Burroughs, and especially Howells are refreshingly candid, including reports of personal interviews and snippets of revealing dialogue."--ChoiceBlurbs
"This valuable and intelligently organized volume leads the reader in two directions: inward, toward a better understanding of Dreiser at a time when he was beginning to emerge as a major writer, and outward, toward a better understanding of the artistic figures, tastes, and assumptions of the 1890s and early twentieth-century America."--Thomas P. Riggio, general editor of The Dreiser Edition series
"Hakutani's readable new collection of Dreiser's interviews and essays involves figures ranging from Lillian Nordica and Childe Hassam to Daniel Chester French and Alfred Stieglitz. The book reviews our appreciation of just how steady a finger Dreiser held on the pulse of the American artistic scene during those crucial turn-of-the-century years when the Modernist era struggled to be born."--Philip Gerber, author of Theodore Dreiser
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