
Jack London
A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Cecelia Tichi(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2015
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-4696-2266-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Tracing the arc of London's work from the late 1800s through the 1910s, Tichi profiles the writer's allies and adversaries in the cities, on the factory floor, inside prison walls, and in the farmlands. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.
Tracing the arc of London's work from the late 1800s through the 1910s, Tichi profiles the writer's allies and adversaries in the cities, on the factory floor, inside prison walls, and in the farmlands. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
33 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-2266-8 (9781469622668)
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Person
Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of Civic Passions, Exposes and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation.