{"product_id":"vandover-and-the-brute","title":"Vandover and the Brute","description":"\u003cp\u003e\nWritten circa 1894-95 but published posthumously in 1914, Frank Norris’s \u003cem\u003eVandover and the Brute\u003c\/em\u003e presents an unflinching portrait of unconventional sexuality, moral dissolution, and physical degeneration. In the setting of turn-of-the-century San Francisco depicted in \u003cem\u003eVandover\u003c\/em\u003e, disaster encompasses far more than the vivid accounts of shipwreck or earthquake that appear in the novel. The slow wasting away of characters who contract syphilis, the suicide of a young girl, and the murder of a man clinging to a lifeboat fascinate readers today as much as they did a century ago, when this scandalous novel was first published. The most complete wreck is Vandover himself, whose artistic talents and constitution collapse after orgies of drink and sexual abandon.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nRuss Castronovo’s new edition gathers historical materials on literary naturalism, gender and criminality, and the visual culture of the late nineteenth century.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66233533956445,"sku":null,"price":29.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/3893\/2573\/files\/9781554812394.jpg?v=1792205275","url":"https:\/\/shop.gazellebookservices.co.uk\/products\/vandover-and-the-brute","provider":"Gazelle Book Services","version":"1.0","type":"link"}