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.
