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Article: Dicken's 'Bleak House' and Norris's 'McTeague.' (Charles Dickens; Frank Norris)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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In the 1890s Frank Norris was part of a movement that began to reclaim Charles Dickens as a positive influence on American literature. For nearly twenty years Dickens had been kept in a critical doghouse by the authorities of Gilded Age realism. (Howells's prejudice against "Dickensian" elements in American fiction can be seen in his review of McTeague.(1)) By defining naturalism as more a romantic than a realistic mode of writing, Norris allowed for "the inclusion of Dickensian elements in American fiction by program as well as by actual performance" (Gardner 70).
Norris absorbed Dickens at his mother's knee, learning early lessons in the handling of narrative ...
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Article: `The Real McTeague' Holds Back Intensity
Chicago Sun-Times;
May 26, 1993 ;
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...The Real McTeague (STAR) (STAR) WTTW-Channel 11 ... director in his latest effort, "The Real McTeague," being shown tonight on PBS as part ... Altman, revolves around the premiere of "McTeague," an opera by composer William Bolcom ...
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