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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 |
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco » Read Nowby Frank Norris, Jerome Loving. 350 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryInspired 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...
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The Pit: A Story of Chicago » Read Nowby Frank Norris. 428 pgs.
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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) » Read Nowby Donald Pizer. 474 pgs.
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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") » Read Nowby Donald Pizer. 234 pgs.
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Writing Realism: Howells, James, and Norris in the Mass Market » Read Nowby Daniel H. Borus. 262 pgs.
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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") » Read Nowby David W. Noble. 226 pgs.
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Five Novelists of the Progressive Era (Chap. 3 "Frank Norris: The Romantic Rebel") » Read Nowby Robert W. Schneider. 294 pgs.
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Literature and Insurgency: Ten Studies in Racial Evolution (Chap. IV "Frank Norris") » Read Nowby John Curtis Underwood. 480 pgs.
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Mining and Rape in Frank Norris's McTeague, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly) » Read Nowby Philip Acree Cavalier. 15 pgs.
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Who's the Boss? McTeague, Naturalism and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Nowby 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") » Read Nowby David Guest. 179 pgs.
Collections: Literature, Entire LibraryLiterature that spotlights real-life punitive justice in America.
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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 » Read Nowby Karsten H. Piep. 29 pgs.
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Domesticating Naturalism: The Example of 'The Pit,' in Studies in American Fiction » Read Nowby 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 » Read Nowby Paul Civello. 23 pgs.
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