Jack London

Book 2012

This volume on Jack London combines biographical material with original essays comparing his career to that of Mark Twain and an examination of his critical reception. His interest in Carl Jung, Naturalism and the theme of androgyny throughout his novels are also discussed. -- Publisher's website.

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London, Jack, 1876-1916 Criticism and interpretation

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Critical insights

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ISBN:

9781587658303

Description:

xiii, 392 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

On Jack London: Darwinism and the evolution of Jack London / Lawrence I. Berkove
Biography of Jack London / Earle Labor
The Paris review perspective / Robert Roper
Love in the time of Darwinism: dialectical approximations in Jack London's Martin Eden / Kenneth K. Brandt
Jack London in context / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
The literary careers of Mark Twain and Jack London / Jeanne Campbell Reesman
The critical reception of Jack London / Donna M. Campbell
Jack London: blond beasts and supermen / Charles Child Walcutt
Jack London's heart of darkness / Sam Baskett
Jack London's use of Carl Jung's Psychology of the unconscious / James I. McClintock
"The Kipling of the Klondike": naturalism in London's early fiction / Earl Wilcox
From "All Gold Canyon" to The acorn-planter: Jack London's agrarian vision / Earle Labor
Androgyny in the novels of Jack London / Clarice Stasz
A romantic novel / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin
The cell / James Williams
Introduction to Jack London's tales of cannibals and headhunters / Gary Riedl, Thomas R. Tietze
New York City, social progress, and the crowd: Jack London's "Telic action & collective stupidity" / Susan Nuernberg
Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the "Great white hope" / Jeanne Campbell Reesman

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2011022244

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2747127

Other Authors:

Berkove, Lawrence I., 1930-2018

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