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Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London
stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks.
Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine." This
study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an
insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San
Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice -
launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic
20th-century writers. The major Northland works - including The
Call of the Wild, White Fang, and "To Build a Fire"- are considered
in connection with the motifs of literary Naturalism, as well as in
relation to complicated issues involving imperialism, race, and
gender. London's key subjects-the frontier, the struggle for
survival, and economic mobility-are examined in conjunction with
how he developed the underlying themes of his work to engage and
challenge the social, political, and philosophical revolutions of
his era that were initiated by Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, and others.
The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism offers a new
perspective on American literary naturalism that considers those
under-researched aspects of the genre that can be gathered under
the term the Nonhuman. The contributors, an international team of
scholars, have turned their attention to that which becomes visible
when the human subject is skirted, or perhaps, temporarily at
least, moved off-center: in other words, the representation of
nonhuman animals and other vital or inert species, things,
entities, cityscapes and seascapes, that also appear and play an
important part in American literary naturalism. Informed by animal
studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and other
recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives, the essays in
this collection discuss early naturalist texts by Norris, Crane,
Dreiser, London, Wharton and Cather, as well as more recent
followers in the tradition of American literary naturalism:
Hemingway, Agee & Evans, Petry, Hamilton, Dick, Vonnegut,
Tepper, and DeLillo. The collection responds to a need to expand
and refine the connections among nonhuman studies and texts
associated with American literary naturalism and to productively
expand the scholarly discourse surrounding this vital movement in
American literary history.
A prolific and enduringly popular author-and an icon of American
fiction-Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in
classrooms from middle school to graduate programs. London's
biography and the role played by celebrity have garnered
considerable attention, but the breadth of his personal experiences
and political views and the many historical and cultural contexts
that shaped his work are key to gaining a nuanced view of London's
corpus of works, as this volume's wide-ranging perspectives and
examples attest. The first section of this volume, "Materials,"
surveys the many resources available for teaching London, including
editions of his works, sources for his photography, and audiovisual
aids. In part 2, "Approaches," contributors recommend practices for
teaching London's works through the lenses of socialism and class,
race, gender, ecocriticism and animal studies, theories of
evolution, legal theory, and regional history, both in frequently
taught texts such as The Call of the Wild, "To Build a Fire," and
Martin Eden and in his lesser-known works.
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