SOURCE: "Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy: Resistance, Normalization, and Deterrence," in The American Novel and Capital Punishment, University Press of Mississippi, 1997, pp. 45-74.
In the following essay, Guest explores the ways in which Dreiser raised questions about the nature of criminal responsibility in An American Tragedy.
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