A Study on Dreiser's Short Story “Sanctuary” in Comparison with Crane's <i>Maggie: A Girl of the Streets</i>

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  • Dreiser の短編 “Sanctuary” 研究
  • Dreiserの短編"Sanctuary"研究 : CraneのMaggie : A Girl of the Streetsと比較しながら
  • Dreiser ノ タンペン"Sanctuary"ケンキュウ : Crane ノ Maggie : A Girl of the Streets ト ヒカク シナガラ
  • Crane の<i> Maggie: A Girl of the Streets</i> と比較しながら

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Theodore Dreiser is famous as an American naturalist who wrote such novels as Sister Carrie（1900） and An American Tragedy（1925）. Dreiser also produced two collections of short fiction, Free and Other Stories（1918） and Chains（1927）, but he has not been appraised highly as a short-story writer in general. “Sanctuary” is one of the stories contained in Chains. There are some remarkable similarities between it and Stephen Crane's first novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets（1893）, a pioneer work of American naturalism. Both works have a New York slum setting, and both of the heroines Madeleine and Maggie are compared to flowers, seduced by flashily dressed young men, and become prostitutes. This paper attempts to evaluate “Sanctuary” and consider its importance in Dreiser's literature by comparing the story with Maggie: A Girl of the Streets.

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  • BULLETIN

    BULLETIN 52 (0), 121-133, 2020

    Shokei University･Shokei University Junior College

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