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Frank Norris Remembered
Frank Norris Remembered is a collection of reminiscences
by Norris’s contemporaries, friends, and family that
illuminate the life of one of America’s most popular
novelists. Considering his undergraduate education spent studying
art at
Académie Julian in Paris and creative writing at
Harvard and his journalism career reporting from the far reaches
of South Africa and Cuba, it is difficult to fathom how Frank
Norris also found time to compose seven novels during the course
of his brief life. But despite his adventures abroad, Norris
turned out novels at a dizzying pace. He published
Moran of the Lady Letty in 1898,
McTeague early in 1899,
Blix later that year,
A Man’s Woman in February 1900, and
The Octopus , the first in his ultimately unfinished
“Epic of the Wheat” trilogy, in 1901. By informing
his novels with his own experiences abroad, Norris composed works
that were politically charged and culturally relevant and that
made considerable contributions to the character of American
literature in the twentieth century. Frank Norris died at the age
of thirty-two in 1902 from peritonitis resulting from a burst
appendix, leaving behind a wife, a daughter, and an unfinished
series of novels (two of which,
The Pit and
Vandover and the Brute
, were published posthumously) . The aim of
Frank Norris Remembered , edited by Jesse S. Crisler and
Joseph R. McElrath Jr., is to re-create the short, spectacular
life of this American author through the eyes of those who knew
him best. The fifty reminiscences included in this book feature
the voices of Frank N. Doubleday; William Dean Howells; Hamlin
Garland; Norris’s wife, Jeannette; and many others who were
lucky enough to form a relationship with this vital
twentieth-century American author, artist, and adventurer.
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Howells and Norris: A Backward Glance Taken
Known to scholars for over a century, the relationship existing between William Dean Howells and Frank Norris has been neither fully described nor thoroughly analyzed. Beginning during Norris's year at Harvard and later as a journalist in San Francisco when he first referred to Howells in his essays, moving through the height of Norris's professional writing career and fame when both he and Howells favorably commented on each other's work and ideas in their respective literary criticism, and ending after Norris's premature death when for a decade more Howells continued to champion one of his favorites, this extraordinary literary acquaintance emerges as a more layered, complicated, and significant connection between the two writers than has been previously acknowledged.
Journal Article
The Bowdlerization of McTeague
The impact of \"McTeague\" on Victorian America is examined. \"McTeague\" was published on Feb 25, 1899 and was to be extremely offensive to many.
Journal Article
