Frank Norris wrote American naturalist fiction about greed, social pressure and individuals caught inside economic systems larger than themselves. McTeague follows a San Francisco dentist whose marriage, money and frustrated ambitions descend into violence, while The Octopus depicts conflict between California wheat growers and a dominant railroad corporation. The Pit continues his projected Epic of the Wheat through commodity speculation in Chicago. Norris’s novels are forceful, socially observant and often deterministic, treating environment, class and economic power as major pressures on character. His work belongs with American naturalism, Gilded Age fiction, novels about capitalism and late nineteenth-century social realism. Read more Less
No products in the cart.