SOURCE: Michaels, Walter Benn. “The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism.” Representations 0, no. 9 (winter 1985): 105-32.
In the following essay, Michaels draws on characters from McTeague and Vandover and the Brute to examine the portrayal of miserly behavior in Norris's naturalistic fiction.
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