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In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser''s second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author''s intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a l...
In 1992 the University of Pennsylvania Press published a new edition of Theodore Dreiser''s second novel, Jennie Gerhardt. The original published text was altered significantly from the author''s intentions: its sexual energy was short-circuited, its criticisms of organized religion were blunted, its language was smoothed and sentimentalized, and, most important, Jennie Gerhardt was reduced to a l...