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Frank Norris wrote McTeague in the San Francisco of the 1890s, and much of the book uses the local detail of this setting. He began the novel when at the English Department of Harvard University in 1895, although the bulk of the work was written in 1897.
- Frank Norris
- 1899
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McTeague, novel by Frank Norris, published in 1899. The work was considered to be the first great portrait in American literature of an acquisitive society. In McTeague, Norris sought to describe the influence of heredity and environment on human life.
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In 1962 the Frank Norris Cabin was designated a National Historic Landmark. An opera by William Bolcom, based loosely on his 1899 novel, McTeague, was premiered by Chicago's Lyric Opera in 1992. The work is in two acts, with libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman.
Mar 11, 2018 · After his breakfast the following Monday morning, McTeague looked over the appointments he had written down in the book-slate that hung against the screen. His writing was immense, very clumsy, and very round, with huge, full-bellied l's and h's.
In 1896, when his essay "Zola as a Romantic Writer" and his review "Zola's Rome " were published in the San Francisco Wave, Norris finally made clear the depth to which he had read in the Zola canon. He wrote with intimate familiarity about no less than eight of the French writer's novels.
Published in 1899 and written by author Frank Norris, McTeague: A Story of San Francisco is a novel in the tradition of Naturalism, a literary movement that explores how people are at the mercy of forces, internal and external, that dictate their behavior and destiny.
Norris wrote the bulk of McTeague while at Harvard in 1894. His parents, a vigorous, virile, plebeian businessman and a refined, histri-onic, patrician clubwoman, had recently been divorced, and while his mother hovered over him at Cambridge Norris was to prepare himself for a writing career. To undertake anything seriously was a new experience ...
