Literature Review on Frank Norris and His McTeague

Frank Norris is a famous American naturalist writer.His novel McTeague is known as the“Declaration of American Naturalism”and its publication establishes him as“the father of American naturalism”.However,few scholars had given a detailed literature review on the current studies of Frank Norris and his novel McTeague.Through the literature search of online databases such as CNKI,EBSCO,ProQuest,and the downloading of data from 1348 libraries,it is obvious that domestic researches concerning Norris’s works are not large while foreign researches are rich in number and deep in level.Studies related to Norris’s Mc⁃Teague both at home and abroad mainly focus on naturalism,character,image,plot,money worship,comic and comparative study,which still can be further explored from different angles like the perspectives of economy,consumption or contemporary narrative.It arouses people’s attention to Frank Norris’s and other American naturalists’works while sheds light on the future studies of McTeague.