Vandover and the Brute

ISBN-13: 9781554812394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str.

Frank Norris; Russ Castronovo

Opis

Rejected by nineteenth-century publishers for its sordid and shocking subject matter, Vandover and the Brute is a powerful novel of turn-of-the-century San Francisco.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Frank Norris: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Vandover and the Brute

Appendix A: Norris, Naturalism, and the Novel

1. Frank Norris, “Zola as a Romantic Writer” The Wave (27 June 1896)
2. From Émile Zola, “The Experimental Novel,” The Experimental Novel and Other Essays (1893)
3. From Frank Norris, “The Responsibilities of the Novelist,” The Responsibilities of the Novelist (1903)
4. From Frank Norris, “The Novel with a ‘Purpose,’” The Responsibilities of the Novelist (1903)

Appendix B: Gender, Evolution, and Degeneration

1. Frank Norris, “Western City Types: The ‘Fast’ Girl” The Wave (9 May 1896)
2. From Joseph Le Conte,  Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought (1899)
3. From Max Nordau, from Degeneration (1895)

Appendix C: Visual Contexts

1. Luis Ricardo Falero, Witches Going to the Their Sabbath (1878)
2. Philippe-Jacques Van Bree, The Harem Bath
3. Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Great Bath at Bursa, Turkey (1885)
4. Jean-Léon Gérôme, Thirst (1888)
5. Images of Gibson Girls

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