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- Title
Injury's Accountant: Theodore Dreiser and the Railroad.
- Authors
Travis, Jennifer
- Abstract
This essay discusses an aspect of the life of Theodore Dreiser, the U.S. writer and naturalist. It focuses on Dreiser's suffering as a railroad worker, mainly from his mental condition brought about by nervous anxiety due to neurasthenia. It was after his departure from the sanitarium of William Muldoon that Dreiser sought employment with the New York Central Railroad with expectations that the labor would help him in his writing. On the railroad, he puts his life, sufferings and psychological wounds into his unfinished work, "An Amateur Laborer."
- Subjects
DREISER, Theodore, 1871-1945; RAILROAD construction workers; RAILROAD employees; AUTHORS; NATURALISM; NATURALISM in literature; NATURALISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Studies in American Naturalism, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1931-2555
- Publication type
Essay