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Frank Norris's McTeague is a significant example　of American literary naturalism as well as a com-mentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values. This revised Norton Critical Edition is again based on the 1899 first edition text and is fully anno-tated.

"Contexts" focuses on the novel's sources and composition. In-　cluded are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a de-*ion of Norris's Polk Street neighborhood (which figures promi-nently in McTeague); an examination of the relationship between　the novel and naturalism; and a discussion of the book's genesis,from its origin as a Harvard assignment to Norris's revision of it　upon his return to San Francisco.

Preface

A Note on the Text

The Text of McTeague

Contexts

　THE SAN FRANCISCO BACKGROUND

　Frank Norris · An Opening for Novelists:

　Great Opportunities for Fiction Writers in San Francisco

From the San Francisco Examiner·Twenty-Nine

Fatal Wounds

From the San Francisco Examiner · He Was Born for the Rope

Robert D. Lundy · [The Polk Street Background of McTeague]

ZOLAESQUE NATURALISM

LarsJdanebrink · Naturalism in France

NORRIS' DEFINITION OF NATURALISM

Introduction

Frank Norris · Zola as a Romantic Writer

Frank Norris · Frank Norris' Weekly Letter

Frank Norris · A Plea for Romantic Fiction

COMPOSITION AND REVISION: HARVARD AND SAN FRANCISCO

Frank Norris ·[Harvard Themes from McTeague]

Donald Pizer · [The Genesis of McTeague]

Criticism

EARLY CRITICISM

Ernest Marchand · [ 1899 Reviews of McTeague]

MODERN CRITICISM

Donald Pizer · Late Nineteenth Century

American Naturalism

Don Graham · Art and Humanity in MeTeague

William E. Cain · Presence and Power in McTeague

Barbara Hochman · Loss, Habit, Obsession:

The Goveming Dynamic of McTeague

lames L. Caron · Grotesque Naturalism:

The Significance of the Comic in McTeague

ILLUSTRATIONS o Four photographs from

Herman G. Weinberg, The Complete Greed of

Erich yon Stroheim

Mary Lawlor · Naturalism in the Cinema:

Erich von Stroheim's Reading of McTeague

Donna M. Campbell · Frank Norris'

"Drama in a Broken Teacup": The Old Grannis-

Miss Baker Plot in McTeague

Frank Norris: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography

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McTeague created a literary sensation when it first appeared in 1899. Critics hailed Frank Norris as the "American Zola" for his gritty tale of greed and violence set in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Yet the novel's ultrarealistic portrayal of the rise and fall of a simpleminded dentist and his grasping wife shocked many readers with its candid depiction of sordid behavior right at the edge of insanity. It remains a searing indictment of human weakness and selfishness in a rapidly evolving America that battled to reconcile city life with the mores of the Wild West.

"McTeague is one of the great works of the modern American imagination," wrote Alfred Kazin. "The novel glows in a light that makes it the first great tragic portrait in America of an acquisitive society. McTeague's San Francisco is the underworld of that society, and the darkness of its tragedy, its pitilessness, its grotesque humor, is like the rumbling of hell. Nothing is more remarkable in the book than the detachment with which Norris saw it--a tragedy almost literally classic in the Greek sense of the debasement of a powerful man--and nothing gives it so much power." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.