In which ways do Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and "The White City" at the 1893 Great Columbian Exposition dramatise the tensions of American modernity? Viola Eckelt this book is the first

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In which ways do Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and "The White City" at the 1893 Great Columbian Exposition dramatise the tensions of American modernity? Viola Eckelt this book is the firstEssay aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik Literatur, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Before discussing in what way and with what results Theodore Dreisers novel Sister Carrie(1900) and The White City at the 1893 Great Columbian Exposition dramatise the tensions of American modernity, it is necessary to define the term modernity. As Davies arguesModernity is a term which is notoriously difficult to define,1 however, he suggests a historical