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McTeague : a story of San Francisco : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Frank Norris ; edited by Donald Pizer.

Title
McTeague : a story of San Francisco : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Frank Norris ; edited by Donald Pizer.
Author
Norris, Frank, 1870-1902.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, c1997.

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Additional Authors
Pizer, Donald
Description
xiv, 414 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
A Norton critical edition
Uniform Title
A Norton critical edition.
Subject
  • Norris, Frank, 1870-1902
  • Dentists > California > San Francisco > Fiction
  • San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Western stories
  • Psychological fiction.
  • Psychological fiction
  • Didactic fiction
  • Fiction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-414).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
An opening for novelists: great opportunities for fiction writers in San Francisco / Frank Norris -- Twenty-nine fatal wounds / From the San Francisco Examiner -- He was born for the rope / From the San Francisco Examiner -- [The Polk Street background of McTeague] / Robert D. Lundy -- Zolaersque naturalism -- Naturalism in France / Lar Ahnebrink -- Norris' definition of naturalism -- Introduction -- Zola as a romantic writer / Frank Norris -- Frank Norris' weekly letter / Frank Norris -- A plea for romantic fiction / Frank Norris -- Composition and revision: Harvard and San Francisco -- [Harvard themes from McTeague] / Frank Norris -- [The genesis of McTeague] / Donald Pizer -- Criticism: Early criticism: [1899 reviews of McTeague] / Ernest Marchand -- Modern criticism: Late nineteenth-century American naturalism / Donald Pizer -- Art and humanity in McTeague / Don Graham -- Presence and power in McTeague / William E. Cain -- Loss, habit, obsession: the governing dynamic of McTeague / Barbara Hochman -- Grotesque naturalism: the significance of the comic in McTeague / James L. Caron -- Illustrations: Four photographs from Herman G. Weinberg, The complete greed of Erich von Stroheim -- Naturalism in the cinema: Erich von Stroheim's reading of McTeague / Mary Lawlor -- Frank Norris' "Drama in a broken teacup": The old grannis-Miss Baker plot in McTeague / Donna M. Campbell.
ISBN
0393970132 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^96016305^
OCLC
  • 34515084
  • SCSB-11003661
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library