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Vandover and the Brute

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

Vandover and the Brute is a novel by Frank Norris, written in 1894–95[1][2] 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

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  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

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  • 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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