Frank Norris

Norris, Frank - (Benjamin Franklin Norris), 1870–1902, American novelist, b. Chicago. After studying in Paris, at the Univ. of California (1890–94), and Harvard, he wrote McTeague (1899), a proletarian novel influenced by the experimental naturalism of Zola. His most impressive work was his proposed trilogy, "The Epic of Wheat," of which only two parts were Read More...

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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
by Frank Norris, Jerome Loving. 350 pgs.

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Inspired by an actual crime that was sensationalized in the San Francisco papers, this novel tells the story of charlatan dentist McTeague and his wife Trina, and their spiralling descent into moral corruption. Norris is often considered to be the "American Zola," and this passionate tale of greed, degeneration, and death is one of the most purely naturalistic American novels of the nineteenth century. It is also one of the first major works of literature set in California, and it provided the story for Erich von Stroheim's classic of the silent screen, Greed.

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The Pit: A Story of Chicago
by Frank Norris. 428 pgs.

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The Octopus
by Frank Norris. 454 pgs.

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Introduction

Book One

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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Documents of American Realism and Naturalism (Chap. Fourteen "Three Essays on Naturalism" by Frank Norris and Chap. Fifteen "The Responsibilities of the Novelist" by Frank Norris)
by Donald Pizer. 474 pgs.

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Preface

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Part One the Critical Debate, 1874-1950

The Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 1874-1914

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One the Novel and Its Future

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Two Modern Fiction

Three the Art of Fiction

Four a Typical Novel

Five Selections from the "Editor's Study"

Six Realism and Romance

Seven Certain Tendencies in Current Literature

Eight the New Battle of the Books

Nine Selections from the Ethics of Literary Art

Ten Realism in Literature and Art

Eleven the Progressive Realism of American Fiction

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Twelve Productive Conditions of American Literature

Thirteen the New Story-Tellers and the Doom of Realism

Fourteen Three Essays on Naturalism

Fifteen the Responsibilities of the Novelist

Sixteen True Art Speaks Plainly

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Seventeen the Naturalism of Mr. Dreiser

Eighteen the Art of Theodore Dreiser

Nineteen William Dean Howells and the Realism of the Commonplace

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Twenty Naturalism in American Fiction

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Twenty-One the Opening Struggle for Realism

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Twenty-Two "Not Men" a Natural History of American Naturalism

Twenty-Three Reality in America

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Twenty-Four Some Observations on Naturalism, So Called, in Fiction

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Part Two Modern Academic Criticism, 1951-1995

Introduction

Twenty-Five Taine in America

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Twenty-Six New Ideas in the Novel

Twenty-Seven Norris Historically Viewed

Twenty-Eight Mark Twain and the Earlier Realism

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Twenty-Nine American Realism Defined

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Thirty "Realism": Toward a Definition

Thirty-One from Document to Symbol: Zola and American Naturalism

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Thirty-Two American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser

Thirty-Three Realism

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Thirty-Four the Country of the Blue

Bibliographical Note

Bibliographical Note

Thirty-Five Preface and Casting Out the Outcast Naturalism and the Brute

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Thirty-Six Realism and "Absent Things in American Life"

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Thirty-Seven Black and White Strangers

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Thirty-Eight Expanding the Canon of American Realism

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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. 9 "Frank Norris's Definition of Naturalism," Chap. 10 "The Significance of Frank Norris's Literary Criticism," and Chap. 14 "Synthetic Criticism and Frank Norris's The Octopus")
by Donald Pizer. 234 pgs.

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Preface to The Second Edition

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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

1: Late Nineteenth-Century American Realism

2: Late Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism

3: Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Approach Through Form

4: American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser

5: The Problem of Philosophy in the Naturalistic Novel

6: The Evolutionary Foundation of W. D. Howells's Criticism and Fiction

7: Evolutionary Ideas in Late Nineteenth-Century English and American Literary Criticism

8: Hamlin Garland and Stephen Crane: The Naturalist as Romantic Individualist

9: Frank Norris's Definition of Naturalism

10: The Significance of Frank Norris's Literary Criticism

11: The Ethical Unity of the Rise of Silas Lapham

12: Hamlin Garland's 1891 Main-Travelled Roads: Local Color as Art

13: Stephen Crane's Maggie and American Naturalism

14: Synthetic Criticism and Frank Norris's the Octopus

15: Jack London: The Problem of Form

16: Theodore Dreiser's Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic"

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Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market
by Daniel H. Borus. 262 pgs.

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Chapter One History, Literature, and the American Realists

Chapter Two The "Simple, Natural, and Honest": American Literary Realism in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter Three Fifth Avenue Takes Command Fiction as a Literary Commodity

Chapter Four The Novelist at the Desk Realism and the Problem of Craft

Chapter Five The Passive Reader and the Celebrated Author Literary Discourse in the Age of Realism

Chapter Six The Lure of Classlessness the Antipolitics of Realism

Chapter Seven The Moment of Realism American Literary Practice and The Nineteenth Century

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The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden: The Central Myth in the American Novel since 1830 (Chap. III "The Naturalists: Frank Norris, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser")
by David W. Noble. 226 pgs.

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I: THE JEREMIAHS

II: THE REALISTS

III: THE NATURALISTS

IV: THE LOST GENERATION

V: AFTER THE LOST GENERATION

VI: THE PRESENT
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Five Novelists of the Progressive Era (Chap. 3 "Frank Norris: The Romantic Rebel")
by Robert W. Schneider. 294 pgs.

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1: William Dean Howells

2: Stephen Crane The Promethean Protest

3: Frank Norris The Romantic Rebel

4: Theodore Dreiser The Cry of Despair

5 Winston Churchill: The Conservative Revolution

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Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution (Chap. IV "Frank Norris")
by John Curtis Underwood. 480 pgs.

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Literature and Insurgency

II: Henry James: Expatriate

III: William Dean Howells and Altruria

IV: Frank Norris

V: David Graham Phillips and Results

VI: Stewart Edward White and All Outdoors

VII: Winston Churchill and Civic Righteousness

VIII: Culture and Edith Wharton

IX: Mrs. Atherton and Ancestry

X: Robert W. Chambers and Commercialism
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Mining and Rape in Frank Norris's McTeague, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Philip Acree Cavalier. 15 pgs.

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Who's the Boss? McTeague, Naturalism and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Karen F. Jacobson. 15 pgs.

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Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment (Chap. Two "Frank Norris's McTeague: Darwin and Police Power")
by David Guest. 179 pgs.

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Literature that spotlights real-life punitive justice in America.

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Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment

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One: Power, Narrative, and Capital Punishment

Two: Frank Norris's Mcteague: Darwin and Police Power

Three: Theodore Dreiser's an American Tragedy: Resistance, Normalization, and Deterrence

Four: Richard Wright's Native Son: Rhetorical Determinism

Five: Truman Capote's in Cold Blood: the Novel as Prison

Six: Norman Mailer's the Executioner's Song: Strategies of Defiance

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Love's Labor's Regained: The Making of Companionate Marriages in Frank Norris's The Pit, in Papers on Language & Literature
by Karsten H. Piep. 29 pgs.

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Domesticating Naturalism: The Example of 'The Pit,' in Studies in American Fiction
by Clare Virginia Eby. 20 pgs.

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Evolutionary Feminism, Popular Romance and Frank Norris's 'Man's Woman,' in Studies in American Fiction
by Paul Civello. 23 pgs.

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by Frank Norris. 339 pgs.

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