London, Jack 1876-1916

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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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LONDON, JACK 1876-1916

Naturalistic writer

Breaking Out

In the 1900s Jack London's naturalistic fiction crashed in on the polite drawing-room stories that had dominated American writing in the late nineteenth century, and left a dramatic mark. His heroes braved the harshest natural elements in Alaska or the open sea and came to see themselves and society with a clarity forged from struggle. London's fascination with the primitive in man, and with the brutal, strong, and simple man of an earlier era, stood in stark contrast to the intellectual and middlebrow heroes of William Dean ...

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