Jack London A Writer's Fight for a Better America / Cecelia Tichi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tichi, Cecelia, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social ethics in literature.

Social problems in literature.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

United States--In literature.

United States.

London, Jack, 1876-1916--Political and social views.

London, Jack, 1876-1916.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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" -- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press" -- Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4696-2506-7

OCLC:

918984066