Further Reading
- Bower, Stephanie, "Dangerous Liaisons: Prostitution, Disease, and Race in Frank Norris's Fiction," Modern Fiction Studies 42, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 31-60. (Examines the literary portrayal of prostitution, venereal disease, and race in Norris's short stories and novels.)
- Elrath, Jr., Joseph R., and Jesse S. Crisler, "The Bowdlerization of McTeague," American Literature 61, no. 1 (March 1989): 97-101. (Recounts events that led to Norris's revision in 1899 of several pages of McTeague in order for the book to receive clearance to be published in England.)
- Frohock, W. M., Frank Norris, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968, 47 p. (Brief examination of Norris's major works, including some discussion of his short stories.)
- Heddendorf, David, "The ‘Octopus’ in McTeague: Frank Norris and Professionalism," Modern Fiction Studies 37, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 677-88. (An assessment of McTeague.)
- Marchand, Ernest, Frank Norris, A Study, New York: Octagon Books, 1942, 258 p. (One of the first thorough examinations of Norris to contextualize his writing within his intellectual and cultural milieu.)
- McCluskey, John E., "Frank Norris' Literary Terminology: A Note On Historical Context," Western American Literature VII, No. 2 (1972): 148-58. (Attempts to clarify the notion that Norris's critical logic was confused and inconsistent.)
- McElrath, Joseph R., "Frank Norris: Early Posthumous Responses," American Literary Realism XII, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 1-76. (Collects the most important early articles and notes that appeared immediately following Norris's death on October 25, 1902.)
- McElrath, Joseph R., Frank Norris, A Descriptive Bibliography, Pittsburgh: University Pittsburgh Press, 1992, 355p. (Comprehensive bibliography of Norris's writing.)
- Seitler, Dana, "Down on All Fours: Atavistic Perversions and the Science of Desire from Frank Norris to Djuna Barnes," American Literature 73, no. 3 (September 2001): 525-62. (Examines the portrayal of modern sexual identity in American literature of the early twentieth century.)
- Swensson, John K., "The Great Corner in Hannibal and St. Jo.: A Previously Unpublished Short Story by Frank Norris," American Literary Realism 4, No. 1 (Summer 1972): 205-26. (Contains the text of Norris's lost story and commentary by Swensson on how this tale fits into the larger body of Norris's short stories.)
- Williams, Sherwood, "The Rise of a New Degeneration: Decadence and Atavism in Vandover and the Brute," ELH 57, no. 3 (Autumn 1990): 709-36. (Analyzes the treatment of sexuality and gender identity in Vandover and the Brute.)
- Wilson, Christopher P., "American Naturalism and the Problem of Sincerity," American Literature 54, no. 4 (December 1982): 511-27. (An overview of works and writers of American naturalism at the beginning of the twentieth century.)
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