Author Under Sail

The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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James Williams

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Author Under Sail offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer. Jay Williams examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a three-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on theatricality and the representation of the seen and the unseen. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.

Author Biography:

Jay Williams is the senior managing editor of Critical Inquiry, the editor of Signature Derrida, and the editor and publisher of seven numbers of the Jack London Journal.

Release date NZ

November 1st, 2014

Author

James Williams

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

1 index

Pages

616

Dimensions

160x229x48

ISBN-13

9780803249912

Product ID

22372067

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