The Titan
This 1914 novel is a masterpiece of financial fiction that dramatically and meticulously captures the business practices of the Gilded Age. Here it is presented in a scholarly edition which draws deeply on archival sources. Following the text are informative commentaries, notes, emendations, and col...
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| description | This 1914 novel is a masterpiece of financial fiction that dramatically and meticulously captures the business practices of the Gilded Age. Here it is presented in a scholarly edition which draws deeply on archival sources. Following the text are informative commentaries, notes, emendations, and color images, all fully indexed.
For this volume in the Dreiser Edition, editor Roark Mulligan has gone back to a 1914 proof as copy-text, a version of the novel that, until now, was in a private collection, unknown to the public.
The Titan is the second volume in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire (The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic). Written during an extremely productive period when Dreiser felt financial pressure to produce novels regularly, when he was experimenting with new techniques, and when he was publishing major works yearly, The Titan is a work of the Dreiser’s golden period.
Based closely on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), The Titan follows Dreiser’s financier (Frank Algernon Cowperwood) from Philadelphia to Chicago, where he builds a transportation empire while battling competitors and romancing women. Dreiser explores the vast cultural and economic forces that transformed American financial practices. The novel’s narration of interacting economic, financial, and social forces, its focus on a powerful and psychologically driven individual, and in particular its examination of the interaction between capitalist enterprise and public good, speak to issues of perennial importance. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1632152025-07-29T20:50:54Z The Titan Mulligan, Roark City literature; Financial fiction; Theodore Dreiser; Theodore Dreiser Edition; Business novel thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas This 1914 novel is a masterpiece of financial fiction that dramatically and meticulously captures the business practices of the Gilded Age. Here it is presented in a scholarly edition which draws deeply on archival sources. Following the text are informative commentaries, notes, emendations, and color images, all fully indexed. For this volume in the Dreiser Edition, editor Roark Mulligan has gone back to a 1914 proof as copy-text, a version of the novel that, until now, was in a private collection, unknown to the public. The Titan is the second volume in Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire (The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic). Written during an extremely productive period when Dreiser felt financial pressure to produce novels regularly, when he was experimenting with new techniques, and when he was publishing major works yearly, The Titan is a work of the Dreiser’s golden period. Based closely on the life of Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905), The Titan follows Dreiser’s financier (Frank Algernon Cowperwood) from Philadelphia to Chicago, where he builds a transportation empire while battling competitors and romancing women. Dreiser explores the vast cultural and economic forces that transformed American financial practices. The novel’s narration of interacting economic, financial, and social forces, its focus on a powerful and psychologically driven individual, and in particular its examination of the interaction between capitalist enterprise and public good, speak to issues of perennial importance. 2025-07-29T20:50:54Z 2025-07-29T20:50:54Z 2025-07-28T12:15:13Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104421 9781906113216 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163215 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104421/1/the-titan.pdf Winchester University Press 10.21039/book3 10.21039/book3 cbe96f16-5dfc-43f2-be39-26103e171462 9781906113216 646 open access |
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| title_full | The Titan |
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| topic | City literature; Financial fiction; Theodore Dreiser; Theodore Dreiser Edition; Business novel thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas |
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