The Trouble with Dreiser: Harper and the Editing of Jennie Gerhar ...

of an idealism and a sensitivity to life that are often ignored but that were central to Dreiser's thinking” (24). We can only see this “fullest expression” in the restored text, because unlike the 1911 edition, it presents Dreiser's intricate portrait of the personal social, cultural, moral, and economic complexities and ambiguities of human experience.