Vandover and the Brute

Frank Norris (1870-1902) was an American novelist and journalist. Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

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

Vandover and the Brute

Appendix A: Norris, Naturalism, and the Novel



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

Appendix B: Gender, Evolution, and Degeneration



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

Appendix C: Visual Contexts



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

Select Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading