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1 online resource (xvii, 652 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Jay Williams -- Life on the Pacific Rim: The Ideology of The Overland Monthly / Jay Williams -- The Facts of Life and Literature / Cecelia Tichi -- Family, Friends, Mentors / Clarice Stasz -- Jack London, Marriage, and Divorce / Clare Virginia Eby -- "Never Had Much Difficulty": Jack London, George Brett, and the Macmillan Company / Kenneth K. Brandt -- Jack London's International Reputation / Joseph McAleer -- "The Feels": Jack London and the New Mass Cultural Public Sphere / Michael Millner -- Jack London, War, and the Journalism that Acts / Karen Roggenkamp -- "In the Thick of It": The (Meta)Discourse of Jack London's Russo-Japanese War Correspondence / Kevin Swafford -- "Come Down from the Mountain Top and Join the Fray": Jack London's Role in the Mexican Revolution / Lawrence D. Taylor -- The Essays, Articles, and Lectures of Jack London / Daniel J. Wichlan -- Jack London as Playwright / George Adams -- Jack London as Poet / George Adams -- The Atavistic Nightmare: Memory and Recapitulation in Jack London's Ghost and Fantasy Stories / Michael Newton -- Darwin's Anachronisms: Liberalism and Conservative Temporality in The Son of the Wolf / Stephen J. Mexal -- The People of the Abyss: Tensions and Tenements in the Capital of Poverty / Sara S. Hodson -- Canine Narration / Loren Glass -- Making Sense of Jack London's Confusion of Genres in The Sea-Wolf / Per Serritslev Petersen -- The Iron Heel and the Contemporary Bourgeois Novel / Kathy Knapp -- "Mix According to Formula": Martin Eden and the Question of Genre / Christopher Gair -- Burning Daylight / Tony Williams -- Jack London's Sci-Fi Finale / John Hay -- The Valley of the Moon: Quest for Love, Land, and a Home / Susan Nuernberg, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Alison Archer -- "A Curious Sort of Book": Jack London's The Star Rover and the Politics of Prison Reform / Susan I. Gatti -- Cherry, Unfinished Business: Race, Class, and the American Empire / Lawrence Phillips -- Sex and Science in Jack London's America / Layne Parish Craig -- From Atavistic Gutter-Wolves to Anglo-Saxon Wolf: Evolution and Technology in Jack London's Urban Industrial Modernity / Agnes Malinowska -- A Bestiary from the Age of Jack London / Michael Lundblad -- "The Ragged Edge of Nonentity": Jack London and the Transformation of the Tramp, 1878-1907 / Paul Durica -- Jack London and Physical Culture / Paul Baggett -- The Sovereign Logic of Jack London's Sea Stories / Hank Scotch -- "See Things in New Ways": Jack London, Socialism, and the Conversionary Model of Politics / Howard Horwitz -- Jack London, Suffering, and the Ideal of Masculine Toughness / Leonard Cassuto -- Women's Rights, Women's Lives / Donna M. Campbell -- Blurred Lines: The Illustration of Jack London / Amy Tucker |
| Summary |
Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: "Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition." Modernity "is an urban condition" "reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century ... a mass phenomenon" characterised by the rise of technology, print culture, and material consumption. Jack London, who is routinely categorised as a naturalist and realist, can also be called a modernist. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the breadth of scholarship in this present volume gives the categorisation new meaning |
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"With his novels, journalism, short stories, political activism, and travel writing, Jack London established himself as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of the twentieth century. Covering London's biography, cultural context, and the various genres in which he wrote, The Oxford Handbook of Jack London is the definitive reference work on the author"-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
London, Jack, 1876-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation
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London, Jack, 1876-1916
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| SUBJECT |
London, Jack, 1876-1916. fast (OCoLC)fst00028181 |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Authors, American.
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Biographies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Jay (James W.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9780190605490 |
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0190605499 |
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