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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Jack London, American public intellectual: an introduction
  • Napoleon of the pen
  • The fight for public opinion
  • War and empire: "the whole dark butchery without a soul"
  • House of progress, house of shame
  • The rancher, the wheat king, and "farmers of forty centuries"
  • In that prison, things unbelievable and monstrous
  • Afterword: unfinished business.

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