Brief Reviews

Jesse Redmon Fauset. Comedy: American Style. Ed. Cherene Sherrard-Johnson. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2009. xl + 270 pp. Cloth, $72.00; paper, $27.95. A superb classroom edition of Fauset’s final novel featuring a fine introduction and annotations by Sherrard-Johnson and selections of related poems and essays by the author. (GS)

Emma Wolf’s Short Stories in The Smart Set. Ed. Barbara Cantalupo. New York: AMS, 2010. xvi + 245 pp. Cloth, $87.50. An excellent literary-archeological edition of a neglected Jewish-American writer. Too expensive for classroom use, the volume should nevertheless prompt renewed scholarly interest in Wolf’s neglected fiction. (GS)

Susan Glaspell. Her America: “A Jury of Her Peers” and Other Stories. Ed. Patricia L. Bryan and Martha C. Carpentier. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2010. 220 pp. Paper, $22.00. A signal event in the rehabilitation of Glaspell’s reputation, this edition reprints a dozen of her best stories with annotations. (GS)

Henry Blake Fuller. The Cliff-Dwellers. Ed. Joseph A. Dimuro. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2010. 345 pp. Paper, $22.95. An excellent classroom edition of the first important Chicago novel, with appendices rich in contextual material, including a sheaf of contemporary reviews and illustrations. (GS)

Theodore Dreiser. The Financier: The Critical Edition. Ed. Roark Mulligan. Urbana and Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2010. xvi + 652 pp. Cloth, $95.00. The first novel in the so-called “trilogy of desire” and latest volume in the Dreiser Edition, this edition features an authoritative text, historical commentary, and notes; and it belongs on the shelves of all research libraries and Dreiser scholars. (GS)

Kate Chopin. The Awakening and Other Writings. Ed. Suzanne L. Disheroon, Barbara C. Ewell, Pamela Glenn Menke, and Susie Scifres. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2011. 296 pp. Paper, $14.95. A fine teaching edition that reprints Chopin’s most important novel, “The Storm,” and some of Chopin’s poetry. The appendices include a swath of contemporary reviews and excerpts from Gilman’s Women and Economics and Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class. (GS)