McTeague: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 2

by Frank Norris, Donald Pizer

Overview

The text of this edition presents, fully annotated, the 1899 First Edition text of McTeague, a significant example of American literary naturalism and a commentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values.

Contexts focuses on the novel's sources and composition. Included are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a description of Norris' Polk Street neighborhood, which figures prominently 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. Criticism has been revised to include major recent assessments of the novel. Two seminal pieces from the previous edition have been retained—Ernest Marchand's account of McTeague's 1899 reviews and Donald Pizer's essay on naturalism. Six essays and four stills from Erich von Stroheim's film version of McTeague are new. The new essays are by Don Graham, William E. Cain, Barbara Hochman, James L. Caron, Mary Lawlor, and Donna M. Campbell. A Chronology and an updated Selected Bibliography are included.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393970135
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/17/1996
Series:	Norton Critical Editions Series
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	404,839
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Donald Pizer was Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University. He was the author of The Novels of Theodore Dreiser, Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism, and The Novels of Frank Norris, among others.