Results for "Brandt, Kenneth K."

A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London’s most profound and moving literary works   The Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his... Read More about The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

This volume includes theoretically innovative essays focusing on the nonhuman by writers working in the tradition of American literary naturalism from the 1890s to the present day.... Read More about The Nonhuman in American Literary Naturalism (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

A prolific and enduringly popular author--and an icon of American fiction--Jack London is a rewarding choice for inclusion in classrooms from middle school to graduate programs. London's biography and the role played by celebrity have garnered considerable attention, but the breadth of his personal ... Read More about Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London (Approaches to Teaching World Literature #132)

An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often rec... Read More about Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)

An innovative collection of essays examining the sometimes paradoxical alignment of Realism and Naturalism with the Gothic in American literature to highlight their shared qualities Following the golden age of British Gothic in the late eighteenth century, the American Gothic’s pinnacle is often rec... Read More about Haunting Realities: Naturalist Gothic and American Realism (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)

Jack London (1876–1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt’s new biography as a vital ... Read More about Jack London (Critical Lives)