Bibliograph

Jack London, a writer's fight for a better America, Cecelia Tichi

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Jack London, a writer's fight for a better America, Cecelia Tichi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Jack London

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

908250254

Responsibility statement

Cecelia Tichi

Sub title

a writer's fight for a better America

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

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

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