Rereading Jack London

Introduction: Jack London, a representative man Leonard Cassuto and Jean Campbell Reesman; 1. Commitment and practice: the authorship of Jack London James Williams; 2. Congested mails: Buck and Jack's 'call' Jonathan Auerbach; 3. Ishi and Jack London's primitives Charles L. Crow; 4. Gazing at royalty: Jack London's The People of the Abyss and the emergence of American imperialism Robert Peluso; 5. Power, gender and ideological discourse in The Iron Hell Francis Shor; 6. Sea change in The Sea-Wolf Sam S. Baskett; 7. Making a heterosexual man: gender, sexuality and narrative in the fiction of Jack London Scott Derrick; 8. Social Darwinism, gender and humor in Adventure Clarice Stasz; 9. The way our people came: citizenship, capitalism, and racial difference in The Valley of the Moon Christopher Hugh Gair; 10. Zone-conquerors and white-devils: the contradictions of race in the works of Jack London Andrew J. Furer; 11. Political leprosy: Jack London the Kama'aina and Koolau the Hawaiian James Slagel; 12. Historical discourses in Jack London's 'shin bones' Tanya Walsh; 13. The myth of hope in Jack London's The Red One Lawrence I. Berkove; Afterword: the representative man as writer/hero Earle Labor; Notes; Index.

Leonard Cassuto is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University. Jeanne Campbell Reesman is Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

'This collection contains 13 essays on a variety of works by London ... Representing new directions in London studies, these essays reach beyond traditional versions of realism and naturalism in discussing London, moving away fromstandard biographical readings with contemporary and diverse theoretical approaches ... The majority of contributors are well established London scholars... but the editors have also selected a handful of newer voices in the field of London studies for inclusion. An important contribution to the study andappreciation of one of America's most popular, yet often misunderstood, writers.' Choice