Sister Carrie

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Sister Carrie is a landmark 1900 naturalist novel by Theodore Dreiser that follows a young woman's rise from small-town obscurity to big-city success while critiquing American urban and consumer culture.

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instanceOf naturalist novel
novel
adaptation film adaptations
stage adaptations
alsoKnownAs Carrie Meeber
author Theodore Dreiser
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques American urban culture
consumer culture
firstEditionPlaceOfPublication New York City
surface form: New York
firstPublicationForm book
followedBy Jennie Gerhardt
genre naturalism
realist fiction
hasCriticalReception initially mixed and morally critical
later widely acclaimed as a classic
hasInfluenced 20th-century American realist fiction
later naturalist writers
hasISBN 978-0-14-018828-3
hasSubject romantic and extramarital relationships
working-class life in American cities
includedIn American literary canon
literaryMovement American naturalism
literarySignificance controversial for its frank treatment of sexuality and morality
landmark work of American naturalism
mainCharacter Caroline Meeber
Charles Drouet
George Hurstwood
narrativeFocus a young woman’s rise from small-town obscurity to big-city success
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
originalLanguage English
pageCountApproximate ~500 pages
protagonistOccupation actress
protagonistOrigin small town in Wisconsin
publicationYear 1900
publisher Doubleday
surface form: Doubleday, Page & Company
setInCity Chicago
New York City
setInCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
setInPeriod late 19th century
theme American Dream
capitalism and materialism
consumer culture
gender and sexuality
moral ambiguity
social mobility
urbanization

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Theodore Dreiser notableWork Sister Carrie
Jennie Gerhardt precededBy Sister Carrie
Naturalism hasKeyWork Sister Carrie
subject surface form: Naturalism (literature)