Theodore Dreiser's Gloom and Estelle Bloom Kubitz's I and one of the others : an edition
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Gregory M. Neubauer (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- Keith Newlin
Abstract: Theodore Dreiser was one of the most important American writers from the period of
1900 to the 1930s. Of signal importance to understanding Dreiser’s life and works are the years
he lived in Greenwich Village, 1914 to 1919. He left his wife, Sara, and established a bohemian
life of extravagance and sexual adventure, forming simultaneous liaisons with dozens of women,
most of whom seeking to establish their own literary careers. He shamelessly exploited their
desire for mentorship by seducing them even as he employed them to type and edit his
manuscripts. Estelle Bloom Kubitz was one of the most significant of these women and also one
about whom little is known.
That Kubitz was simultaneously in love with Dreiser and repelled by him is evident in
letters to her sister and in an unpublished manuscript, “I and One of the Others,” where Dreiser
appears as S.O.B. and Kubitz as Miss DamnPhool. Dreiser himself began an account of his
relationship with Kubitz entitled “Gloom,” intending it to
be part of his serialized novel “This Madness” (1929) but left it unfinished. This thesis is a
biographical introduction to “Gloom” and “I and One of the Others.” Both texts advance an
understanding of the Dreiser-Kubitz relationship by revealing Dreiser’s attraction to Kubitz and
the effects his promiscuity had on her.
Theodore Dreiser's Gloom and Estelle Bloom Kubitz's I and one of the others : an edition
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- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Dreiser Theodore 1871-1945 Gloom--Criticism and interpretation, Kubitz Estelle Bloom I and one of the others--Criticism and interpretation
- Subjects
- Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945. Gloom. -- Criticism and interpretation
- Kubitz, Estelle Bloom. I and one of the others. -- Criticism and interpretation