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Loading... The Complete Edition Of Frank Norris: Vol V - Vandover And The Brute (edition 1928)by Frank Norris
Work InformationVandover and the Brute by Frank Norris
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is the first Frank Norris novel I ever read and his stark, uncompromising style captured me forever. A man's alcohol fueled descent from the top to his bottom is unrelentingly chronicled by Norris. The naturalist style in American literature is foremost defined in my mind by his works. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Written circa 1894-95 but only published posthumously in 1914, Frank Norris's Vandover and the Brute presents an unflinching portrait of unconventional sexuality, moral dissolution, and physical degeneration. In the setting of turn-of-the-century San Francisco depicted in Vandover, disaster encompasses far more than the vivid accounts of shipwreck or fire that appear in the novel. The slow wasting away of characters who contract syphilis, the suicide of a young girl, and the murder of a man clinging to a lifeboat fascinate readers today as much as they did a century ago, when this scandalous novel was first published. The most complete wreck is Vandover himself, whose artistic talents and constitution collapse after orgies of drink and sexual abandon. Russ Castronovo's new edition gathers historical materials on literary naturalism, gender and criminality, and the visual culture of the late nineteenth century. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.4Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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