This Norton Critical Edition features the 1900 Doubleday Page text of the novel. "Backgrounds and Sources" reprints excerpts from Dreiser's autobiographies, and a documentary account, drawn largely from Dreiser's correspondence with Frank Norris, Arthur Henry, Walter H.Page and F.N.Doubleday, discusses the supposed "suppression" of Sister Carrie by its first publisher. "Criticism" includes twelve essays that seek to identify Dreiser's literary naturalism in "Sister Carrie", the sources of fictional strength in the novel and the novel's relationship to American life. New to the second edition are essays by Ellen Moers, Robert Penn Warren, Philip Fisher, Robert Shulman and Donald Pizer.
- ISBN10 0393960420
- ISBN13 9780393960426
- Publish Date 17 January 1991 (first published 1 January 1900)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 25 September 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Edition Critical 2 Revised ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 592
- Language English