| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Last Titan: A Life of Theodore Dreiser. By Jerome Loving. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xvi, 480 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-520-23481-2.)

Theodore Dreiser, sometimes called the "Father of American Realism" (p. 140), has long occupied a contested position in American literary studies. Damaging accusations of plagiarism and anti-Semitism have diminished his reputation, yet as the author of Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925), two of the most highly regarded naturalistic novels in the American literary canon, Dreiser cannot be so easily dismissed.

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