This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising b…
Male Call: Becoming Jack London
by Project Muse, Auerbach, Jonathan
fromBook collections on Project MUSE
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 o…
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 o…
Jack London has been a best-selling author for more than one hundred years. In his short life (1876?1916) he wrote twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. Today he is recognized as a forerunner of such literary giants as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbec…
The true story of Jack London, one of the most famous American literary figures, in his own words.
Joseph McAleer uses fresh archival material to explore Jack London's publishing career outside of North America. He illuminates the relationships with publishers and agents, principally in Britain, as a key to understanding the character, drive, and international success of this…