Sister Carrie Hussman, Lawrence E.; III, James L. W. West; Dreiser, Theodore ...
The Antioch Review,
01/1982, Letnik:
40, Številka:
1
Book Review, Magazine Article
The Financier: The Critical Edition SEED, DAVID; Dreiser; Mulligan, Theodore; Roark
Journal of American studies,
02/2012, Letnik:
46, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The result is that African Americans are a "race without a country, a people without a national ideal" (33). In his 1917 essay "Life, Art and America" he attacked what he called the "religion and sex ...puritanism" of America (51), using the term like H. L. Mencken after him to designate a facade of piety which thinly masked a whole range of criminal activities and therefore the real brutality of American life. Throughout his political writings Dreiser was expressing an indignant frustration at his country's betrayal of its stated ideals. ...he concludes that America is the "land of the free corporation, not of the individual" (69, his emphasis) and this is a position which he repeats again and again.
