Title Male call : becoming Jack London / Jonathan Auerbach

Published Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (x, 289 pages) : illustrations Series New Americanists New Americanists. Contents 1. The Question of a Name -- 2. The (White) Man on Trail: London's Northland Stories -- 3. "Congested Mails": Buck and Jack's "Call" -- 4. The Subject of Socialism: Postcards from London's Abyss -- 5. Collaborating Love in and out of The Kempton-Wace Letters -- 6. Between Men of Letters: Homoerotic Agon in The Sea-Wolf Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-283) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject London, Jack, 1876-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT London, Jack, 1876-1916 fast London, Jack, (1876-1916) -- Critique et interprétation. ram Subject Autobiographical fiction, American -- History and criticism Masculinity in literature. Authorship -- Psychological aspects. Self in literature. Men in literature. Authorship -- Psychological aspects Autobiographical fiction, American Masculinity in literature Men in literature Self in literature Moi -- Dans la littérature. Masculinité (psychologie) -- Dans la littérature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822397243 0822397242

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