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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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W. D. Howells and Race: Charles W. Chesnutt's Disappointment of the Dean
William Dean Howells was sympathetic to African Americans. This is apparent not only in his fiction but in essays focusing on Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, and Charles W. Chesnutt. All three typed the \"sweetness\" that Howells was delighted to find among representative members of a still-oppressed race. The Howells-Chesnutt relationship was a cordial one in which the former publicly expressed his a appreciation of the latter's literary talent and thus assisted him in achieving his rise to celebrity; Howells's needs, too, were met, since Chesnutt displayed a freedom from \"bitterness\" that bode well for black-white relations in the future. The relationship ended abruptly when, with the publication of The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt disclosed a vindictive side of his personality that Howells had not seen. Reviewing Marrow as a \"bitter, bitter\" book, a disillusioned Howells also wrote to Henry B. Fuller: \"Good Lord! How such a negro must hate us.\"
Journal Article
W. D. Howells and Race: Charles W. Chesnutt's Disappointment of the Dean
William Dean Howells was sympathetic to African Americans. This is apparent not only in his fiction but in essays focusing on Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, and Charles W. Chesnutt. All three typed the \"sweetness\" that Howells was delighted to find among representative members of a still-oppressed race. The Howells-Chesnutt relationship was a cordial one in which the former publicly expressed his a appreciation of the latter's literary talent and thus assisted him in achieving his rise to celebrity; Howells's needs, too, were met, since Chesnutt displayed a freedom from \"bitterness\" that bode well for black-white relations in the future. The relationship ended abruptly when, with the publication of The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Chesnutt disclosed a vindictive side of his personality that Howells had not seen. Reviewing Marrow as a \"bitter, bitter\" book, a disillusioned Howells also wrote to Henry B. Fuller: \"Good Lord! How such a negro must hate us.\"
Journal Article
