The text of McTeague --

The sources and composition of McTeague --

The San Francisco background --

An opening for novelists : great opportunities for fiction writers in San Francisco / Frank Norris --

Twenty-nine fatal wounds / from the San Francisco Examiner --

He was born for the rope / from the San Francisco Examiner --

The Polk Street background of McTeague / Robert D. Lundy --

French naturalism and Émile Zola --

Naturalism in France / Lars Åhnebrink --

Norris and Zola / Ernest Marchand --

The wedding party / Émile Zola --

Composition and revision : Harvard and San Francisco --

Fact into fiction in McTeague / Charles Kappan --

Harvard themes from McTeague / Frank Norris --

The genesis of McTeague / Donald Pizer --

Norris's theory of fiction --

Life, not literature / Donald Pizer --

Norris's definition of naturalism --

Zola as a romantic writer / Frank Norris --

Frank Norris' weekly letter / Frank Norris --

A plea for romantic fiction / Frank Norris --

The mechanics of fiction --

Fiction is selection / Frank Norris --

The mechanics of fiction / Frank Norris --

Criticism --

Early criticism --

To the editor of Book News / Frank Norris --

A case in point / William Dean Howells --

1899 reviews of McTeague / Ernest Marchand --

Recent criticism --

Frank Norris : and The brute / Maxwell Geismar --

Frank Norris and the search for form / Charles C. Walcutt --

McTeague / Richard Chase --

The old folks of McTeague / William B. Dillingham --

Late nineteenth-century American naturalism / Donald Pizer --

Norris's prose style and the gold symbolism in McTeague / William B. Dillingham --

Dickens, romance and McTeague : a study in mutual interpretation / Joseph H. Gardner.