Frank Norris Studies

1986-2004

Frank Norris Studies was published by the Frank Norris Society from 1986-2004. All issues are available online here: https://franknorrissociety.org/frank-norris-studies-1986-2004

2004 (New Series, Volume 4)

Note: With this issue came the following notice: "Publication of Frank Norris Studies ceases with this issue, New Series, Volume 4 (November 2004)

Crisler, Jesse S. "Hamlin Garland's Relationship with Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 4 (2004): 5-12.

Link, Eric Carl. "A Tale of Two Municipalities: O. Henry Responds to Norris's 'The House with the Blinds.'" Frank Norris Studies 4 (2004): 1-5.

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "'The Wife of Chino': A Reconsideration of Frank Norris's Narrative Technique." Frank Norris Studies 4 (2004): 12-16.

 

2003 (New Series, Volume 3)

Crisler, Jesse S. "The College Man in South Africa: A New Article by Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 3 (2003): 5-7.

---. "Frank Norris in Cuba during the Spanish-American War: A Previously Unnoted Interview." Frank Norris Studies 3 (2003): 1-3.

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "James A. Herne, Actor and Playwright, Interviewed by Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 3 (2003): 3-5.

---. "Scenes from the Spanish-American War: Frank Norris's Holograph Draft of an Introduction to 'With Lawton at El Caney.'" Frank Norris Studies 3 (2003): 7-8.

2002 (New Series, Volume 2)

Crisler, Jesse S. "Norris's Parents Not a 'Marriage of True Minds'." Frank Norris Studies 2 (2002): 7-20.
Loomis, Ormond. "Frank Norris's Training in Composition." Frank Norris Studies 2 (2002): 1-7.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr., and Douglas K. Burgess. "Joseph Leiter: Frank Norris's Model for Curtis Jadwin in The Pit." Frank Norris Studies 2 (2002): 20-24.

2001 (New Series, Volume 1)

Fisher, Benjamin F. "Victorian Contexts for Frank Norris's Yvernelle." Frank Norris Studies 1 (2001): 8-13.
Silva, Reinaldo. "The Corrosive Glance from above Social Darwinism, Racial Hierarchy, and the Portuguese in The Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 1 (2001): 2-8.

2000

Gifford, Tracey. "Frank Norris in California's Central Coast." Frank Norris Studies 30 (2000): 2-6.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Frank Norris on the Sommers N. Smith." Frank Norris Studies 30 (2000): 6-8.
---. "A New Short Story by Frank Norris?" Frank Norris Studies29 (2000): 1-7.

1998-1999

Campbell, Donna. "'One Note of Color': The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 3-5.
Davison, Richard Allan. "Frank Norris's Apprenticeship Writings and the Theatre." Frank Norris Studies25 (1998): 5-8.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Frank Norris's Portrait of Joaquin Miller in The Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 26 (1998): 7-8.
---. "Houghton, Mifflin's Rejection of Yvernelle." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 2.
Nicholson, Bruce. "Frank Norris's 'Dedication' in the Pit." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 1-2.
Wertheim, Stanley. "Two Yellow Kids: Frank Norris and Stephen Crane." Frank Norris Studies 27 (1999): 2-8.
Zimmerman, David A. "The Mesmeric Sources of Frank Norris's The Pit." Frank Norris Studies 26 (1998): 2-4.

1996-1997

Budd, Louis J. "A New 1902 Letter by Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 6-7.
Davison, Richard Allan. "Charles G. Norris, Margaret Sanger and Seed." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 1-3.
Johanningsmeier, Charles. "'Rediscovering' Frank Norris's 'a Salvation Boom in Matabeleland'." Frank Norris Studies22 (1996): 1-6.
Jones, Gwendolyn. "Frank Norris's the Pit: 'a Romance of Chicago' and 'a Story of Chicago'." Frank Norris Studies21 (1996): 1-8.
Leitz, Robert C., III. "Norris in Cyberspace." Frank Norris Studies 22 (1996): 6, 8.
Link, Eric Carl. "Frank Norris's Blackwood Tale." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 4-6.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Frank Norris as Aspiring Writer: The Would-Be Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Author." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 7-8.

1993-1995

Atha, Sharon D., and Robert C. Leitz, III. "Frank Norris's Critical Illness and Death: Two 1902 Perspectives." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 1-4.
Berkove, Lawrence. "The Romantic Realism of Bierce and Norris." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 13-17.
Burgess, Douglas K. "Norris's 'Van Bubbles' Story': Bursting the Bubble of the Davis Mystique." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 10-13.
Carter, Ronnie D. "Polish Academic Writing on Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 4-5.
Dean, Thomas K. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 5-8.
---. "William A. Brady's 1914 Film Adaptation of Frank Norris's the Pit." Frank Norris Studies 17 (1994): 1-7.
Fisher, Benjamin F. "Frank Norris Parodies Anthony Hope." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 17-20.
Kaplan, Charles. "Mcteague Lives! The Opera." Frank Norris Studies 16 (1993): 7-8.
Leitz, Robert C., III. "Jack London in 1900: Besting Norris in the Far North." Frank Norris Studies 16 (1993): 6-7.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Photographic Illustrations of William Brady's Film, the Pit." Frank Norris Studies 17 (1994): 8-11.
---. "'the 'Ricksha That Happened'; Norris's Parody of Rudyard Kipling." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 1-4.
Scharnhorst, Gary. "Harte, Norris, and 'the Hero of Tomato Can'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 8-10.
"Special Issue: Perverted Tales." Frank Norris Studies 15, (1993 Spring): (1993).
Teague, David. "Frank Norris and the Visual Arts." Frank Norris Studies 19 (1994): 4-8.
Werner, Mary Beth. "'a Vast and Terrible Drama': Frank Norris's Domestic Violence Fantasy in McTeague." Frank Norris Studies 19 (1994): 1-4.
Wertheim, Stanley. "Frank Norris's 'the Green Stone of Unrest'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 5-8.

1990-1992

Anderson, Jennifer, and Robert C. Leitz, III. "Norris Notices in the Conservator." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 5-8.
Blues, Thomas. "A Note on Frank Norris's Banjo." Frank Norris Studies 12 (1991): 7-10.
Cook, Don L. "Mcteague at Ninety: The Novel and Its Tensions." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 2-5.
Crow, Charles L. "Recent Trends in Mcteague Scholarship." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 1-5.
Davison, Richard Allan. "Frank Norris and William Cullen Bryant." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 6-8.
Dean, Thomas K. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 11-12.
---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 11; 12 (1991): 11-12; 10-12.
Duncan, Charles. "Where Piggishness Flourishes: Contextualizing Strategies in Norris and London." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 1-6.
Jones, Gwendolyn. "Zola's Publications in English in the United States, 1876-1902." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 8-11.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Edwin Markham in Frank Norris's the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 10-11.
---. "Frank Norris: Biographical Data from the Wave, 1891-1901." Frank Norris Studies 10 (1990): 1-12.
---. "Frank Norris's Blix: Jeannette Black as Travis." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 8-11.
Morelli-White, Nan. "The Damnation of Mcteague: Frank Norris's Morality Play." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 5-10.
Stronks, James. "B. F. Norris (Senior) in Probate Court, with New Light on Frank Norris as Son." Frank Norris Studies 12 (1991): 3-5.

1986-1989

Abbott, Craig S. "Reflexive Revision in Frank Norris's Mcteague and a Man's Woman." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 9-10.
Crisler, Jesse S. "Norris in South Africa." Frank Norris Studies 7 (1989): 4-7.
---. "Norris's Departure for Johannesburg." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 4-5.
---. "Norris's 'Library'." Frank Norris Studies 5 (1988): 1-11.
Crisler, Jesse S., Jr. "Editing the Letters of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 1 (1986): 1-4.
Crow, Charles L. "Bruce Porter's Memoir of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 1-2.
Davison, Richard Allan. "Charles G. Norris, Kathleen Norris and Vandover and the Brute." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 2-4.
---. "The Marriage, Divorce and Demise of a Father of Novelists: B. F. Norris." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 2-5.
---. "Some Light on Gertrude Doggett Norris's 1894 Divorce Suit." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 3-4.
---. "Zelda Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov and James A. Michener: Three Opinions on Frank Norris's Mcteague." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 11-12.
Dean, Thomas K. "The Critical Reception of Erich Von Stroheim's Greed." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 7-11.
---. "Current Publications Update." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 10-11.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin I. V. "The Pit as a Play." Frank Norris Studies 4 (1987): 4-7.
Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, IV. "The Pit as a Play." Frank Norris Studies 4 (1987): 4-7.
Giles, James R., and Thomas K. Dean. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 5; 6 (1988): 12; 6-8.
Hart, James D. "The Freshman Themes of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 2 (1986): 1-2.
Hochman, Barbara. "Self-Disclosure in the Fiction of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 5-7.
Lawlor, Mary. "Naturalism in the Cinema: Erich Von Stroheim's Reading of Mcteague." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 6-8.
Lawson, Benjamin S. "The Presence of Joaquin Miller in the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 1-3.
McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 5-8.
---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 2 (1986): 3-4.
---. "Frank Norris and the Wave: 1894." Frank Norris Studies 1 (1986): 4.
---. "Frank Norris and the Wave: 1895." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 4.
---. "Frank Norris's 'Metropolitan Noises'." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 5-6.
Miller, Edwin Haviland. "Toward a Biography of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 2-5.
Newman, Robert D. "Supernatural Naturalism: Norris's Spiritualism in the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 4 (1987): 1-4.
Stronks, James. "Frank Norris and the Eighth Grade." Frank Norris Studies 7 (1989): 2-4.
---. "The Norris Divorce Suit: Another Newspaper Account." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 8-9.



"Special Issue: Perverted Tales." Frank Norris Studies 15, (1993 Spring): (1993).

Abbott, Craig S. "Reflexive Revision in Frank Norris's McTeague and A Man's Woman." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 9-10.

Anderson, Jennifer, and Robert C. Leitz, III. "Norris Notices in the Conservator." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 5-8.

Atha, Sharon D., and Robert C. Leitz, III. "Frank Norris's Critical Illness and Death: Two 1902 Perspectives." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 1-4.

Berkove, Lawrence. "The Romantic Realism of Bierce and Norris." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 13-17.

Blues, Thomas. "A Note on Frank Norris's Banjo." Frank Norris Studies 12 (1991): 7-10.

Budd, Louis J. "A New 1902 Letter by Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 6-7.

Burgess, Douglas K. "Norris's 'Van Bubbles' Story': Bursting the Bubble of the Davis Mystique." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 10-13.
Campbell, Donna. "'One Note of Color': The Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 3-5.

Carter, Ronnie D. "Polish Academic Writing on Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 4-5.

Cook, Don L. "Mcteague at Ninety: The Novel and Its Tensions." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 2-5.

Crisler, Jesse S., Jr. "Editing the Letters of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 1 (1986): 1-4.

Crisler, Jesse S. "Norris's Departure for Johannesburg." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 4-5.

---. "Norris's 'Library'." Frank Norris Studies 5 (1988): 1-11.

---. "Norris in South Africa." Frank Norris Studies 7 (1989): 4-7.

Crow, Charles L. "Bruce Porter's Memoir of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 1-2.

---. "Recent Trends in McTeague Scholarship." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 1-5.

Davison, Richard Allan. "Charles G. Norris, Kathleen Norris and Vandover and the Brute." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 2-4.

---. "Some Light on Gertrude Doggett Norris's 1894 Divorce Suit." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 3-4.

---. "Zelda Fitzgerald, Vladimir Nabokov and James A. Michener: Three Opinions on Frank Norris's McTeague." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 11-12.

Davison, Richard Allan. "The Marriage, Divorce and Demise of a Father of Novelists: B. F. Norris." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 2-5.

---. "Frank Norris and William Cullen Bryant." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 6-8.

---. "Charles G. Norris, Margaret Sanger and Seed." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 1-3.

---. "Frank Norris's Apprenticeship Writings and the Theatre." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 5-8.

Dean, Thomas K. "The Critical Reception of Erich Von Stroheim's Greed." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 7-11.

---. "Current Publications Update." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 10-11.

---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 11; 12 (1991): 11-12; 10-12.

---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 11-12.

---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 18 (1994): 5-8.

---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 17 (1994): 12.

Dean, Thomas K. "William A. Brady's 1914 Film Adaptation of Frank Norris's The Pit." Frank Norris Studies 17 (1994): 1-7.

Duncan, Charles. "Where Piggishness Flourishes: Contextualizing Strategies in Norris and London." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 1-6.

Fisher, Benjamin Franklin, IV. "The Pit as a Play." Frank Norris Studies 4 (1987): 4-7.

Fisher, Benjamin F. "Frank Norris Parodies Anthony Hope." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 17-20.

Giles, James R., and Thomas K. Dean. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 5; 6 (1988): 12; 6-8.

Hart, James D. "The Freshman Themes of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 2 (1986): 1-2.

Hochman, Barbara. "Self-Disclosure in the Fiction of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 5-7.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "'Rediscovering' Frank Norris's 'a Salvation Boom in Matabeleland'." Frank Norris Studies 22 (1996): 1-6.

Jones, Gwendolyn. "Zola's Publications in English in the United States, 1876-1902." Frank Norris Studies 14 (1992): 8-11.

---. "Frank Norris's The Pit: 'a Romance of Chicago' and 'a Story of Chicago'." Frank Norris Studies 21 (1996): 1-8.

Kaplan, Charles. "Mcteague Lives! The Opera." Frank Norris Studies 16 (1993): 7-8.

Lawlor, Mary. "Naturalism in the Cinema: Erich Von Stroheim's Reading of Mcteague." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 6-8.

Lawson, Benjamin S. "The Presence of Joaquin Miller in the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 1-3.

Leitz, Robert C., III. "Jack London in 1900: Besting Norris in the Far North." Frank Norris Studies 16 (1993): 6-7.

---. "Norris in Cyberspace." Frank Norris Studies 22 (1996): 6, 8.

Link, Eric Carl. "Frank Norris's Blackwood Tale." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 4-6.

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 2 (1986): 3-4.

---. "Frank Norris and the Wave: 1894." Frank Norris Studies 1 (1986): 4.

---. "Frank Norris and the Wave: 1895." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 4.

---. "Current Publications: Update." Frank Norris Studies 3 (1987): 5-8.

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "Frank Norris's 'Metropolitan Noises'." Frank Norris Studies 6 (1988): 5-6.

---. "Frank Norris: Biographical Data from the Wave, 1891-1901." Frank Norris Studies 10 (1990): 1-12.

---. "Frank Norris's Blix: Jeannette Black as Travis." Frank Norris Studies 11 (1991): 8-11.

---. "Edwin Markham in Frank Norris's the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 10-11.

---. "'the 'Ricksha That Happened'; Norris's Parody of Rudyard Kipling." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 1-4.

---. "Photographic Illustrations of William Brady's Film, the Pit." Frank Norris Studies 17 (1994): 8-11.

---. "Frank Norris as Aspiring Writer: The Would-Be Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Author." Frank Norris Studies 23 (1997): 7-8.

---. "Houghton, Mifflin's Rejection of Yvernelle." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 2.

---. "Frank Norris's Portrait of Joaquin Miller in the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 26 (1998): 7-8.

---. "A New Short Story by Frank Norris?" Frank Norris Studies 29 (2000): 1-7.

Miller, Edwin Haviland. "Toward a Biography of Frank Norris." Frank Norris Studies 9 (1989): 2-5.

Morelli-White, Nan. "The Damnation of McTeague: Frank Norris's Morality Play." Frank Norris Studies 13 (1992): 5-10.

Newman, Robert D. "Supernatural Naturalism: Norris's Spiritualism in the Octopus." Frank Norris Studies 4 (1987): 1-4.

Nicholson, Bruce. "Frank Norris's 'Dedication' in the Pit." Frank Norris Studies 25 (1998): 1-2.

Scharnhorst, Gary. "Harte, Norris, and 'the Hero of Tomato Can'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 8-10.

Stronks, James. "The Norris Divorce Suit: Another Newspaper Account." Frank Norris Studies 8 (1989): 8-9.

---. "Frank Norris and the Eighth Grade." Frank Norris Studies 7 (1989): 2-4.

---. "B. F. Norris (Senior) in Probate Court, with New Light on Frank Norris as Son." Frank Norris Studies 12 (1991): 3-5.

Teague, David. "Frank Norris and the Visual Arts." Frank Norris Studies 19 (1994): 4-8.

Werner, Mary Beth. "'a Vast and Terrible Drama': Frank Norris's Domestic Violence Fantasy in McTeague." Frank Norris Studies 19 (1994): 1-4.

Wertheim, Stanley. "Frank Norris's 'the Green Stone of Unrest'." Frank Norris Studies 15 (1993): 5-8.

---. "Two Yellow Kids: Frank Norris and Stephen Crane." Frank Norris Studies 27 (1999): 2-8.

Zimmerman, David A. "The Mesmeric Sources of Frank Norris's The Pit." Frank Norris Studies 26 (1998): 2-4.