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Frank Norris

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Biography

Name: Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
Birth Date: May 5, 1870
Death Date: October 25, 1902
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Place of Death: San Francisco, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist, critic

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Biography of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr.
1,255 words, approx. 4 pages
The best work of Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (1870-1902), American novelist and critic, achieves a raw force that has won him an important place in the history of American fiction. Frank Norris was born in Chicago on Mar. 5, 1870, the son of a...
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Biography of Frank Norris
11,856 words, approx. 40 pages
Frank Norris is a central figure in American literary history mainly because of three novels, McTeague (1899), The Octopus (1901), and The Pit (1903). But he is also important because of what he indicates to the cultural historian: his works mirror...
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Biography of (Benjamin) Frank(lin) Norris, (Jr.)
7,267 words, approx. 24 pages
Frank Norris is known principally as an American novelist rather than a western one. He was perceived as a national artist by the majority of his contemporaries, and at the time of his early death in 1902 his sobriquet, the American Zola, even...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Norris, Frank (1870-1903) Summary
204 words, approx. 1 pages
Born in Chicago on March 5, 1870, Frank Norris is best known as one of the leading lights of American literary naturalism. Having studied art in Paris for a year before attending the University of California in Berkeley and then Harvard, Norris worked...
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Frank Norris Information
1,084 words, approx. 4 pages
Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5 1870 – October 25 1902) was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include <i>McTeague</i> (1899), <i>The Octopus: A California...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ron Mottram
9,523 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Mottram discusses the influence of photography and early motion pictures on Norris's writing.
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Critical Essay by Paul Civello
8,770 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Civello discusses the recurrent character-type in Norris's fiction known as the “man's woman.”
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Critical Essay by Barbara Hochman
7,763 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Hochman disputes Frank Norris's reputation as a naturalist, contending that the imaginative force of his work “is not to be sought in his naturalist concerns, but rather in a cluster of preoccupations that center on the vulnerability of the self.”
 


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