Vandover and the Brute

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-55481-239-4
Verlag: Broadview Press

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Broadview Editions

Written circa 1894-95 but published posthumously in 1914, Frank Norris’s Vandover and the Brute presents an unflinching portrait of unconventional sexuality, moral dissolution, and physical degeneration. In the setting of turn-of-the-century San Francisco depicted in Vandover, disaster encompasses far more than the vivid accounts of shipwreck or earthquake that appear in the novel. The slow wasting away of characters who contract syphilis, the suicide of a young girl, and the murder of a man clinging to a lifeboat fascinate readers today as much as they did a century ago, when this scandalous novel was first published. The most complete wreck is Vandover himself, whose artistic talents and constitution collapse after orgies of drink and sexual abandon.

Russ Castronovo’s new edition gathers historical materials on literary naturalism, gender and criminality, and the visual culture of the late nineteenth century.

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Über Autor(innen)

Frank Norris (1870-1902) was an American novelist and journalist.

Russ Castronovo is Tom Paine Professor of English and Dorothy Draheim Professor of American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.