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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed'The Iron Heel' is recognized to be one of the most striking books to come out of the utopian literature movement. Written by British author Jack London, 'The Iron Heel' was deeply influenced by the author's pessimism...
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From:Biography (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPART I: INTRODUCTION The political autobiography of the modern British worker reveals that he usually regarded himself in a capitalist nation as one among myriad "atoms," part of a homogenous and segregated...
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From: The Overland MonthlyIn “The Son of the Wolf” the author gives his testimony of Alaskan life through actual sojourn in the country he describes. This personal contact, as it were, with his subject gives the book a unique charm and value. The...
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From: Call[(essay date 14) In the following essay, O’Connell analyzes the presentation of masculinity in London’s short stories set in San Francisco. She argues that the city “provides the medium for London to reveal the...
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From: American Literary Realism, 1870-1910[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay, Swift maintains that "The Unparalleled Invasion" articulates London's racial anxiety and envisions scientific advances that simultaneously exacerbate and quell racial...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Ward surveys several of London's short stories written specifically for children.] Jack London is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, a handful...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 41, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedProminent works such as Fredric Jameson's A Singular Modernity (2002), Rita Felski's The Gender of Modernity (1995), and Marshall Berman's All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) suggest...
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From: Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)In the Soviet Union, Jack London is regarded as one of the greatest of American writers, chiefly because of such sentiments as are found in now-obscure works of his such as "A Night with the Philomaths." There he has a...
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From: Jack London: A Study of the Short Fiction[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Reesman discusses London as a radically experimental writer who was able to successfully convey unusual characters, settings, and subject matter during his short but prolific...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe paradox of "the crowd" was a subject of intense scrutiny in the newly emerging discipline of sociology at the turn of the twentieth century. Jack London, a socially conscious writer and a voracious reader,...
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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 88, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedJack London had a terrible penchant for systems, and though he shifted among these systems, over the course of his short but prolific career, they were not inconsistent. Each served as what could be called a universal...
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From:Journeys (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhy did London place his life and those of his crew at risk of imminent death when he voyaged to the Solomon Islands in 1908, a region he believed to be filled with cannibals and headhunters? Based on archival sources,...
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From: ALR: American Literary Realism, 1870-1910[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Labor counters the prevailing critical opinion that the work London produced during the last years of his life is of lower quality than his earlier fiction. Citing the 1914...
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From:Studies in American Fiction (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJack London, who wrote at a time when there was controversy over the New Woman, created female characters who were free thinking, physically capable and economically independent without being mannish. London succeeded in...
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From:American Literary Realism (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe opening chapter of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild presents a dual epigraph, establishing Jack London's formative role in the life of Chris McCandless: First, a quote from a graffito dated May 1992, declaring "Jack...
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From: Evolution and Eugenics in American Literature and Culture, 1880-1940: Essays on Ideological Conflict and Complexity[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Hopkins compares Before Adam to White Fang and The Call of the Wild, noting the differences in the evolution of humans and the evolution of wolves and dogs. She argues that...
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From:Atenea (Vol. 28, Issue 1)Feminist critic Clarice Stasz, in her landmark 1976 essay entitled "Androgyny in the Novels of Jack London," spearheaded what was to become the feminist literary response to Jack London--an author usually valorized for...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe works of Jack London, author of some twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, are marked by an enormous amount of preparation; he once asserted that he suffered a "lack of origination" and had...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 56, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMany things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. (1) Eudora invented camp. (2) I. No MATTER WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW, wish we knew, or in...
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From: Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Riedl and Tietze offer a psychoanalytical interpretation of "The House of Pride."] As early as 1816, American Protestant missionaries, most of them descended from the emigré...