Jack London

A Writer's Fight for a Better America
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4696-3605-4
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing 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 as a political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tichi, Cecelia

Über Autor(innen)

Cecelia Tichi is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and professor of American studies at Vanderbilt University. She is author of Civic Passions, Exposes and Excess, and Embodiment of a Nation.