Background and contexts: --
Dreiser and the profession of authorship / James L.W. West III --
Dreiser and the uses of biography / Thomas P. Riggio --
Dreiser's style / Paul Giles --
Dreiser and the history of American longing / Jackson Lears --
Dreiser and his culture: --
The matter of Dreiser's modernity / Bill Brown --
Dreiser, class, and the home / Catherine Jurca --
Can there be loyalty in the Financier? Dreiser and upward mobility / Bruce Robbins --
Dreiser, art, and the museum / Miles Orvell --
Dreiser and women / Clare Virginia Eby --
Sister Carrie, race, and the World's Columbian Exposition / Christopher Gair --
Dreiser's sociological vision / Priscilla Wald --
Dreiser and crime / Leonard Cassuto.