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Male Call - Becoming Jack London (Paperback, New)
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Male Call - Becoming Jack London (Paperback, New)
Series: New Americanists
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When Jack London died in 1916 at age forty, he was one of the most
famous writers of his time. Eighty years later he remains one of
the most widely read American authors in the world. The first major
critical study of London to appear in a decade, Male Call analyzes
the nature of his appeal by closely examining how the struggling
young writer sought to promote himself in his early work as a
sympathetic, romantic man of letters whose charismatic masculinity
could carry more significance than his words themselves. Jonathan
Auerbach shows that London's personal identity was not a basis of
his literary success, but rather a consequence of it. Unlike
previous studies of London that are driven by the author's
biography, Male Call examines how London carefully invented a
trademark "self" in order to gain access to a rapidly expanding
popular magazine and book market that craved authenticity,
celebrity, power, and personality. Auerbach demonstrates that only
one fact of London's life truly shaped his art: his passionate
desire to become a successful author. Whether imagining himself in
stories and novels as a white man on trail in the Yukon, a sled
dog, a tramp, or a professor; or engaging questions of manhood and
mastery in terms of work, race, politics, class, or sexuality,
London created a public persona for the purpose of exploiting the
conventions of the publishing world and marketplace. Revising
critical commonplaces about both Jack London's work and the meaning
of "nature" within literary naturalism and turn-of-the-century
ideologies of masculinity, Auerbach's analysis intriguingly
complicates our view of London and sheds light on our own
postmodern preoccupation with celebrity. Male Call will attract
readers with an interest in American studies, American literature,
gender studies, and cultural studies.
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