Overview

London's first-hand engagement with the world--the process of becoming and maintaining himself as a citizen of the world--helps define the kind of writing he produced. It is insufficient now to call him a naturalist writer if his principal concern was to reflect and represent, not the usual fare of violence and natural forces that we as literary theorists have used to periodize London's work, but rather something larger, more indeterminant, contemporary. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the sheer weight of the scholarship in this present volume that attests to this alternative designation gives it a thorough grounding that previous attempts lacked. London called his times the Machine Age, not just to underscore the rapidity of modern life and its new mechanization, but also to highlight the need for a new social and economic order. The purpose of this handbook is to honor him as a representative American writer of the age as he understood it.

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Author:   Jay Williams
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 25.10cm
Weight:   1.225kg
ISBN:  

9780199315178

ISBN 10:   0199315175
Pages:   674
Publication Date:   02 March 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Table of Contents Introduction Jay Williams 1. Life on the Pacific Rim: The Ideology of The Overland Monthly Jay Williams 2. The Facts of Life and Literature Cecelia Tichi 3. Family, Friends, and Mentors Clarice Stasz 4. Jack London, Marriage, and Divorce Clare Virginia Eby 5. ""Never Had Much Difficulty"": Jack London, George Brett, and the Macmillan Company Kenneth K. Brandt 6. Jack London's International Reputation Joseph McAleer 7. ""The Feels"": Jack London and the New Mass Cultural Public Sphere Michael Millner 8. Jack London, War, and the Journalism That Acts Karen Roggenkamp 9. ""In the Thick of It"": The (Meta)Discourse of Jack London's Russo-Japanese War Correspondence Kevin R. Swafford 10. ""Come Down from the Mountain Top and Join the Fray"": Jack London's Role in the Mexican Revolution Lawrence D. Taylor 11. The Essays, Articles and Lectures of Jack London Daniel J. Wichlan 12. Jack London as Playwright George Adams 13. Jack London as Poet George Adams 14. The Atavistic Nightmare: Memory and Recapitulation in Jack London's Ghost and Fantasy Stories Michael Newton 15. Darwin's Anachronisms: Liberalism and Conservative Temporality in The Son of the Wolf Stephen J. Mexal 16. The People of the Abyss: Tensions and Tenements in the Capital of Poverty Sara S. Hodson 17. Canine Narration Loren Glass 18. Making Sense of Jack London's Confusion of Genres in The Sea-Wolf Per Serritslev Petersen 19. The Iron Heel and the Contemporary Bourgeois Novel Kathy Knapp 20. ""Mix According to Formula"": Martin Eden and the Question of Genre Christopher Gair 21. Burning Daylight Tony Williams 22. Jack London's Sci-Fi Finale John Hay 23. The Valley of the Moon: Quest for Love, Land, and a Home Susan Nuernberg, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, and Alison Archer 24. ""A Curious Sort of Book"": Jack London's The Star Rover and the Politics of Prison Reform Susan I. Gatti 25. Cherry, Unfinished Business: Race, Class, and the American Empire Lawrence Phillips 26. Sex and Science in Jack London's America Layne Parish Craig 27. From Atavistic Gutter-Wolves to Anglo-Saxon Wolf's: Evolution and Technology in Jack London's Urban Industrial Modernity Agnes Malinowska 28. A Bestiary from the Age of Jack London Michael Lundblad 29. ""The Ragged Edge of Nonentity"": Jack London and the Transformation of the Tramp, 1878-1907 Paul Durica 30. Jack London and Physical Culture Paul Baggett 31. The Sovereign Logic of Jack London's Sea Stories Hank Scotch 32. ""See Things in New Ways"": Jack London, Socialism, and the Conversionary Model of Politics Howard Horwitz 33. Jack London, Suffering, and the Ideal of Masculine Toughness Leonard Cassuto 34. Women's Rights, Women's Lives Donna Campbell 35. Blurred Lines: The Illustration of Jack London Amy Tucker"

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Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --J. W. Miller, CHOICE

Author Information

Jay Williams is Senior Managing Editor for Critical Inquiry and the founding editor of the Jack London Journal.

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