“Amid all the maze, uproar, and novelty”

Abstract

A t the turn of the twentieth century, sociologists identified “ promiscuous spaces , where people mingled with strangers, where boundaries were fluid, and traditional spatial segregation according to class, race, religion, sexuality, gender, or nationality held no purchase.” 1 Such “promiscuous space” resonates with what historian Amy Richter has recently identified as the rise of “public domesticity” on rail cars in the latter half of the nineteenth century, which reshaped the social conventions of acceptable and respectable interaction between strangers, particularly for white, middle-class women. 2 Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel, Sister Carrie , articulates his own understanding of changing spatial forms in the midst of both of these cultural formations and demonstrates the tensions between imagined and material spaces for many turn-of-the-century Americans. 3 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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