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“The Man Who Knew Why Women Sinned” (Arun Mukherjee review of Theodore Dreiser : An American Journey: Volume II, 1908-1945)

 

Arun Mukerjee review of Lingeman bio, vol. 2 – Toronto Globe and Mail 11-17-1990

Arun Mukherjee review of Lingeman bio, vol. 2 – Toronto Globe and Mail 1-17-1990

 

Posted here is an excellent review by Arun Mukherjee, a professor at York University and author of The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel: The Rhetoric of Dreiser and Some of His Contemporaries:

“The Man Who Knew Why Women Sinned”

review of Theodore Dreiser : An American Journey: Volume II, 1908-1945 by Richard Lingeman

reviewed by Arun Mukherjee

The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada)

November 17, 1990

 

 

– posted by Roger W. Smith

   November 2022