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The Oxford handbook of Jack London / edited by Jay Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in literature.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London, Jack, 1876-1916--Criticism and interpretation.
- London, Jack.
- London, Jack, 1876-1916.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Jack London
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: "Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition." Modernity "is an urban condition" "reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century ... a mass phenomenon" characterised by the rise of technology, print culture, and material consumption. Jack London, who is routinely categorised as a naturalist and realist, can also be called a modernist. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the breadth of scholarship in this present volume gives the categorisation new meaning.
- Contents:
- Life on the Pacific Rim: The Ideology of The Overland Monthly / Jay Williams
- / Lawrence D. Taylor
- The Essays, Articles and Lectures of Jack London / Daniel J. Wichlan
- Jack London as Playwright / George Adams
- Jack London as Poet / George Adams
- The Atavistic Nightmare: Memory and Recapitulation in Jack London's Ghost and Fantasy Stories / Michael Newton
- Darwin's Anachronisms: Liberalism and Conservative Temporality in The Son of the Wolf / Stephen J. Mexal
- The People of the Abyss: Tensions and Tenements in the Capital of Poverty / Sara S. Hodson
- Canine Narration / Loren Glass
- Making Sense of Jack London's Confusion of Genres in The Sea-Wolf / Per Serritslev Petersen
- The Iron Heel and the Contemporary Bourgeois Novel / Kathy Knapp
- The Facts of Life and Literature / Cecelia Tichi
- / Christopher Gair
- Burning Daylight / Tony Williams
- Jack London's Sci-Fi Finale / John Hay
- The Valley of the Moon: Quest for Love, Land, and a Home / Susan Nuernberg, Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Alison Archer
- / Susan I. Gatti
- Cherry, Unfinished Business: Race, Class, and the American Empire / Lawrence Phillips
- Sex and Science in Jack London's America / Layne Parish Craig
- From Atavistic Gutter-Wolves to Anglo-Saxon Wolf's: Evolution and Technology in Jack London's Urban Industrial Modernity / Agnes Malinowska
- A Bestiary from the Age of Jack London / Michael Lundblad
- / Paul Durica
- Family, Friends, and Mentors / Clarice Stasz
- Jack London and Physical Culture / Paul Baggett
- The Sovereign Logic of Jack London's Sea Stories / Hank Scotch
- / Howard Horwitz
- Jack London, Suffering, and the Ideal of Masculine Toughness / Leonard Cassuto
- Women's Rights, Women's Lives / Donna Campbell
- Blurred Lines: The Illustration of Jack London / Amy Tucker
- Introduction / Jay Williams
- Jack London, Marriage, and Divorce / Clare Virginia Eby
- / Kenneth K. Brandt
- Jack London's International Reputation / Joseph McAleer
- / Michael Millner
- Jack London, War, and the Journalism That Acts / Karen Roggenkamp
- / Kevin R. Swafford.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 5, 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780190605490
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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