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Jack London : an American original
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ISBN: 0199761434 1280603062 1423774353 9781423774358 9780195122237 0195122232 9786610603060 6610603065 9780199761432 9781280603068 0195122232 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,


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Jack London
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ISBN: 1789629152 0746312970 178694622X 0746312962 Year: 2018 Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine." This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers. The major Northland works - including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and "To Build a Fire" - are considered in connection with the motifs of literary Naturalism, as well as in relation to complicated issues involving imperialism, race, and gender. London's key subjects;the frontier, the struggle for survival, and economic mobility;are examined in conjunction with how he developed the underlying themes of his work to engage and challenge the social, political, and philosophical revolutions of his era that were initiated by Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and others.

Male call : becoming Jack London
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ISBN: 0822318202 0822397242 082231827X 132204760X Year: 1996 Volume: *8 Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press,

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When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a sympathetic, romantic man of letters whose charismatic masculinity could carry more significance than his words themselves.Jonathan Auerbach shows that London’s personal identity was not a basis of his literary success, but rather a consequence of it. Unlike previous studies of London that are driven by the author’s biography, Male Call examines how London carefully invented a trademark “self” in order to gain access to a rapidly expanding popular magazine and book market that craved authenticity, celebrity, power, and personality. Auerbach demonstrates that only one fact of London’s life truly shaped his art: his passionate desire to become a successful author. Whether imagining himself in stories and novels as a white man on trail in the Yukon, a sled dog, a tramp, or a professor; or engaging questions of manhood and mastery in terms of work, race, politics, class, or sexuality, London created a public persona for the purpose of exploiting the conventions of the publishing world and marketplace.Revising critical commonplaces about both Jack London’s work and the meaning of “nature” within literary naturalism and turn-of-the-century ideologies of masculinity, Auerbach’s analysis intriguingly complicates our view of London and sheds light on our own postmodern preoccupation with celebrity. Male Call will attract readers with an interest in American studies, American literature, gender studies, and cultural studies.

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Hommes dans la littérature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Mannelijkheid (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Mannen in de literatuur --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Masculinité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Men in literature --- Moi dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- Authorship --- Autobiographical fiction, American --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Self in literature. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- London, Jack --- Criticism and interpretation --- Psychological aspects --- Autobiographical fiction [American ] --- History and criticism --- London, Jack, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Lun-tun, Chieh-kʻo, --- London, Zhek, --- London, John Griffith, --- London, Dzhėk, --- Chaney, John Griffith, --- Lonton, Tzak, --- London, Dzsheḳ, --- London, G'eḳ, --- Landan, Jak, --- London, Jek, --- Laṇṭan̲, Jāk, --- Лондон, Джек, --- ג׳ק לונדון, --- לאנדאן, דזש --- לאנדאן, דזשאק --- לאנדאן, דזשזעק --- לאנדאן, דזשעק --- לאנדאן, דזשעק, --- לאנדאן, ד. --- לונדון, ג׳ק --- לונדון, ג׳ק, --- לונדון, דזיק, --- לונדון, דז׳ק --- 伦敦杰克, --- London, Džek, --- Лондон, Џек, --- لندن، جک --- לאנדאן, ד., --- לאנדאן, דזש, --- לאנדאן, דזשאק, --- לאנדאן, דזשזעק, --- לונדון, דז׳ק, --- لندن، جک,


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Author under sail
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ISBN: 9780803249912 9780803256835 0803256833 9780803256828 0803256825 0803249918 9780803256842 0803299982 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lincoln

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"The definitive examination of the early works of Jack London through London's incorporation and understanding of the role of imagination"-- "In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature. "--


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Author Under Sail
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ISBN: 1496223047 0803249926 1496223020 9781496223043 9780803249929 Year: 2021 Publisher: Lincoln

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In this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.


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The South Pacific narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London : race, class, imperialism
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ISBN: 1441173382 1474211534 1283736101 1441199284 9781441199287 9781283736107 144119956X 1472522559 9781441173386 9781474211536 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York Continuum

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From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Engaging the major European colonial empires and the USA, the struggle questioned ideas of liberty, racial identity and class like few other arenas of the time. Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing Stevenson's and London's South Pacific work, this study reveals two critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early 20th-century colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race, and class.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis, --- Stevenson, R. L. --- Shih-ti-wen-sheng, --- Stivenson, Robert Lui, --- Sŭtʻibŭnsŭn, R. L., --- Sitivensin, Robert Loui, --- Stivenson, Robert Lʹi︠u︡is, --- Stivensoni, Robert Luis, --- Sṭivanasana, Āra. Ela., --- Sṭivansana, Āra. Ela., --- Stivenson, R. L. --- Стивенсон, Роберт Луис, --- Стивенсон. Р. Л., --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואיס, --- סטיבנסון, רוברט לואס --- סטיבנסון, ר״ל, --- סטיבנסון, ר. ל. --- סטיווענסאן, ראבערט ל. --- סטיװענסאן, ראבערט לואיס, --- 史蒂文森罗伯特·路易斯, --- R.L. スティーブンソン, --- R.L.スティーヴンソン, --- R. L. S. --- RLS --- S., R. L. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Stevenson, Robert Louis --- Imperialism in literature. --- London, Jack, --- Islands of the Pacific --- Oceania --- In literature. --- Lun-tun, Chieh-kʻo, --- London, Zhek, --- London, John Griffith, --- London, Dzhėk, --- Chaney, John Griffith, --- Lonton, Tzak, --- London, Dzsheḳ, --- London, G'eḳ, --- Landan, Jak, --- London, Jek, --- Laṇṭan̲, Jāk, --- Лондон, Джек, --- ג׳ק לונדון, --- לאנדאן, דזש --- לאנדאן, דזשאק --- לאנדאן, דזשזעק --- לאנדאן, דזשעק --- לאנדאן, דזשעק, --- לאנדאן, ד. --- לונדון, ג׳ק --- לונדון, ג׳ק, --- לונדון, דזיק, --- לונדון, דז׳ק --- 伦敦杰克, --- London, Džek, --- Лондон, Џек, --- لندن، جک --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Pacific Islands --- Pacific Ocean Islands --- לאנדאן, ד., --- לאנדאן, דזש, --- לאנדאן, דזשאק, --- לאנדאן, דזשזעק, --- לונדון, דז׳ק, --- لندن، جک,

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