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1914 novel by Frank Norris
Vandover and the Brute
Title page of the first edition.
AuthorFrank Norris
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherDoubleday, Page & Company
Publication date1914
Publication placeUnited States

Vandover and the Brute is a novel by Frank Norris, written in 1894–95 and first published in 1914.

The novel is primarily set in San Francisco in the 1890s. (Several of the characters bear surnames identical to street names in that city: Geary, Haight, Ellis.) It is a work of American naturalist fiction, depicting the rapid decline and dissolution of a once-promising young painter, as the eponymous brute within gains the upper hand.

Notes

  1. Norris, Charles G. (1914). "Foreword" to Vandover and the Brute. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, p. v.
  2. Wyatt, Edith (1917). "Vandover and the Brute." In: Great Companions. New York: D. Appleton & Company, p. 48.

Further reading

  • Fusco, Katherine (2009). "Brute Time: Anti-Modernism in Vandover and the Brute," Studies in American Naturalism, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 22–40.
  • Hartwick, Harry (1934). "Norris and the Brute." In: The Foreground of American Fiction. New York: American Book Company, pp. 45–66.
  • Jennings, Randee Dax (2014). "The Economy of Affect in Frank Norris’s Vandover and the Brute," Studies in the Novel, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 335–353.
  • King, Christine Harvey (1997). "Humor Separates the Artist from the Bungler in 'Vandover and the Brute'," American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 14–26.
  • Pizer, Donald (1961). "Evolutionary Ethical Dualism in Frank Norris' Vandover and the Brute and McTeague," PMLA, Vol. 76, No. 5, pp. 552–560.
  • Williams, Sherwood (1990). "The Rise of a New Degeneration: Decadence and Atavism in Vandover and the Brute," ELH, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 709–736.

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