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A stunning new story of the authorial development that undergirds Jack London's prolific fiction and nonfiction. This book offers a far richer U.S. socio-literary vein than any mined to date by critics and researchers of London's life and career. Jay Williams, what's more, presents a new model of close reading, not a formalist plea for artistic unity but a showcase of literary-critical focal power. For admirers of Jack London, for students of American literature, and for historians of the book, Author Under Sail is a must . --Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000 --Cecelia Tichi (03/06/2014)

A stunning new story of the authorial development that undergirds Jack London's prolific fiction and nonfiction. This book offers a far richer U.S. socio-literary vein than any mined to date by critics and researchers of London's life and career. Jay Williams, what's more, presents a new model of close reading, not a formalist plea for artistic unity but a showcase of literary-critical focal power. For admirers of Jack London, for students of American literature, and for historians of the book, Author Under Sail is a must. - Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000 Author Under Sail offers a paradigm-shifting approach to Jack London studies... Williams has the gift of explaining complex ideas in straightforward, clear language and is also a storyteller adept at tracing the human connections behind the texts and shaping them into an engrossing tale. Author Under Sail will become an indispensable source for all serious London scholars. - Chris Gair, author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature

Thoroughly documented and cogently argued, Author under Sail heralds a departure from all scholars who thought they knew about Jack London and promises a wealth of new directions in London scholarship. -S. M. Nuernberg, CHOICE -- S. M. Nuernberg CHOICE [Author Under Sail] is indispensable for Jack London scholars. -Anita Duneer, Studies in American Naturalism -- Anita Duneer Studies in American Naturalism A stunning new story of the authorial development that undergirds Jack London's prolific fiction and nonfiction. This book offers a far richer U.S. socio-literary vein than any mined to date by critics and researchers of London's life and career. Jay Williams, what's more, presents a new model of close reading, not a formalist plea for artistic unity but a showcase of literary-critical focal power. For admirers of Jack London, for students of American literature, and for historians of the book, Author Under Sail is a must. -Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000 -- Cecelia Tichi Author Under Sail offers a paradigm-shifting approach to Jack London studies... Williams has the gift of explaining complex ideas in straightforward, clear language and is also a storyteller adept at tracing the human connections behind the texts and shaping them into an engrossing tale. Author Under Sail will become an indispensable source for all serious London scholars. -Chris Gair, author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature -- Chris Gair

Thoroughly documented and cogently argued, Author under Sail heralds a departure from all scholars who thought they knew about Jack London and promises a wealth of new directions in London scholarship. -S. M. Nuernberg, CHOICE -- S. M. Nuernberg CHOICE A stunning new story of the authorial development that undergirds Jack London's prolific fiction and nonfiction. This book offers a far richer U.S. socio-literary vein than any mined to date by critics and researchers of London's life and career. Jay Williams, what's more, presents a new model of close reading, not a formalist plea for artistic unity but a showcase of literary-critical focal power. For admirers of Jack London, for students of American literature, and for historians of the book, Author Under Sail is a must. -Cecelia Tichi, author of Exposes and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900/2000 -- Cecelia Tichi Author Under Sail offers a paradigm-shifting approach to Jack London studies... Williams has the gift of explaining complex ideas in straightforward, clear language and is also a storyteller adept at tracing the human connections behind the texts and shaping them into an engrossing tale. Author Under Sail will become an indispensable source for all serious London scholars. -Chris Gair, author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature -- Chris Gair

Author Under Sail offers a paradigm-shifting approach to Jack London studies. . . . Williams has the gift of explaining complex ideas in straightforward, clear language and is also a storyteller adept at tracing the human connections behind the texts and shaping them into an engrossing tale. Author Under Sail will become an indispensable source for all serious London scholars. --Chris Gair, author of Complicity and Resistance in Jack London's Novels: From Naturalism to Nature --Chris Gair (03/06/2014)

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Jay Williams is the senior managing editor of Critical Inquiry, as well as the editor of Signature Derrida and editor/publisher of seven numbers of the Jack London Journal.

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