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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco Study Guide

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by Frank Norris
About 62 pages (18,629 words)
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Literary Precedents

Generally seen as a straight naturalistic novel in terms of its major themes, embodying such typical assumptions as biological determinism, atavistic degeneration, the influence of milieu, and the operation of chance, McTeague is considered to be one of the most important American novels of the 1890s to employ a naturalistic technique.

Scholarship has revealed numerous incidents and scenes that document the influence on this work of Zola's novels, in particular, of Therese Raquin (1881; original in French, 1867) for its study of an unhappy marriage between a nervous woman and a slow-witted man, of L'Assommoir (1879; original in French, 1877) for its.....

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