Jack London : A Writer's Fight for a Better America /

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"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to world...

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Main Author: Tichi, Cecelia, 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
London, Jack, > 1876-1916.
London, Jack, > 1876-1916. > Political and social views.
London, Jack, > 1876-1916 > Political and social views.
Social problems in literature.
Social ethics in literature.
Political and social views.
Literature.
Authors, American.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Morale sociale dans la litterature.
Problemes sociaux dans la litterature.
Écrivains americains > 20e siecle > Biographies.
Écrivains americains > 19e siecle > Biographies.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.
United States.
United States > In literature.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London's career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer leveraged his written words as a force for the future"--
Item Description:"Published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781469625065

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