McTeague : a story of San Francisco : authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Norris, Frank 1870-1902 (Author). Pizer, Donald. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780393970135
ISBN: 0393970132
Physical Description: xiv, 414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
print
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-414).

Formatted Contents Note:

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.