Benjamin Franklin “Frank” Norris Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American journalist and sometimes a novelist during the Progressive Era, whose fiction was predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901), and The Pit (1903). (Information from Wikipedia)
Articles in Western American Literature:
From Fields of Wheat to Fields of Value: The Energy Unconscious of The Octopus, by Jeff Diamanti
McTeague as Metafiction?: Frank Norris’ Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel, by William J. Hug
Parody and Dark Projections: Medieval Romance and the Gothic in McTeague, by Susan Prothro McFatter
Vandover and the Brute: The Decisive Experience of Loss, by Barbara Hochman
The Genesis of the Rapist in The Octopus: Frank Norris’s Revision of Vandover and the Brute, by John Jolly
The Inconsistent Octopus, by Robert E. Morsberger
Ambivalent Warriors in The Octopus, by Robert Micklus
Frank Norris’s Western Metropolitans, by Glen A. Love
The Real Vanamee and His Influence On Frank Norris’ The Octopus, by Charles L. Crow
McTeague: The Imagistic Network, by Suzy Bernstein Goldman
Frank Norris’ Literary Terminology: A Note On Historical Context, by John E. McCluskey
Beneficial Atavism in Frank Norris and Jack London, by James R. Giles
An Undiscovered Early Review of Norris’ Octopus, by Richard Allan Davison
The Western Naturalism of Frank Norris, by Don D. Walker
Charles and Frank Norris, by Arnold L. Goldsmith
