ISBN:
9780190605490
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 652 pages)
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Series Statement:
Oxford handbooks online
Series Statement:
Literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Oxford handbook of Jack London
DDC:
813.52
Keywords:
London, Jack Criticism and interpretation
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London, Jack
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Authors, American Biography 20th century
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London, Jack ; 1876-1916 ; Criticism and interpretation
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London, Jack ; 1876-1916
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Authors, American ; 20th century ; Biography
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Aufsatzsammlung
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London, Jack 1876-1916
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London, Jack 1876-1916
Abstract:
Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman define modernism and modernity this way: "Modernity is a social condition. Modernism was a response to that condition." Modernity "is an urban condition" "reached in certain parts of the world in the late nineteenth century ... a mass phenomenon" characterised by the rise of technology, print culture, and material consumption. Jack London, who is routinely categorised as a naturalist and realist, can also be called a modernist. The word modern appears often in the pages of this handbook, and though it is not new to call London a modernist, the breadth of scholarship in this present volume gives the categorisation new meaning.
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.001.0001
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