Jay Williams

The Oxford Handbook of Jack London (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199315185
• Artikelnr.: 48795735

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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