Jack London : a writer's fight for a better America /
"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 world...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of 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.
