The novel is followed by "A Note on the Text," which discusses the relationship between this edition s text and that of the Pennsylvania Edition (1981), and a "Textual Appendix," which provides a generous sampling of the cuts Dreiser and his friend Arthur Henry made in the typescript version of Sist[...]
The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured Backgrounds and Sources section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on Crane s use of the Battle of Chancellorsville. Critic[...]