Engendering Naturalism: Narrative Form and Commodity Spectacle in U.S. Naturalist Fiction

Lori A. Merish

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In a well-known passage from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, the eponymous heroine, Carrie Meeber, an apt student in fortune's ways, learns a lesson from her lover in the art of feminine public appearance. Carrie, a young woman from the countryside recently arrived in Chicago, walks with her lover, Drouet, and pick[s] ... up from him the trick of attentively watching women who pass along the street:

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