The Call of the Wild (by Jack London)

London, Jack - (John Griffith London), 1876–1916, American author, b. San Francisco. The illegitimate son of an astrologer and a Welsh farm girl, he had a poverty-stricken childhood, brought up by his mother and her husband, John London. At 17, Jack London shipped as an able seaman to Japan and the Bering Sea. He was an oyster pirate, a gold-seeker in the first Klondike rush, a newspaper Read More...

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The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
by Jack London, Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III. 368 pgs.

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'It was true, there were other dogs. There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count.' Buck, the magnificent offspring of a St Bernard and Scotch shepherd dog, lives contentedly on a California estate until he is stolen and shipped northwards to be trained as a sledge dog. Uprooted from the civilized world, he is thrown into the cruel and savage struggle of the Klondike gold rush. The story of his heroic adventures and his response to the 'call of the wild' has not only excited readers but also struck a deeper, mythic chord. Of all Jack London's fictions none has been so popular as his dog stories. Included in this selection is the companion novel to The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and five famous short stories: 'Batard', 'Moon-Face', 'Brown Wolf', 'That Spot', and 'To Build a Fire', all with canine themes. * Introduction * Textual Note * Bibliography * Chronology * Explanatory Notes * Map.

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Introduction

Note on the Text

Select Bibliography

A Chronology of Jack London

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I: into the Primitive

II: The Law of Club and Fang

III: The Dominant Primordial Beast

IV: Who Has Won to Mastership

V: The Toil of Trace and Trail

VI: For the Love of a Man

VII: The Sounding of the Call

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Part One: The Wild

I: The Trail of the Meat

II: The She-Wolf

III: The Hunger Cry

Part Two: Born of the Wild

I: The Battle of the Fangs

II: The Lair

III: The Gray Cub

IV: The Wall of the World

V: The Law of Meat

The Makers of Fire

Part Three: The Gods of the Wild

II: The Bondage

III: The Outcast

IV: The Trail of the Gods

V: The Covenant

VI: The Famine

Part Four: The Superior Gods

I: The Enemy of His Kind

II: The Mad God

III: The Reign of Hate

IV: The Clinging Death

V: The Indomitable

VI: The Love-Master

I: The Long

Part Five: The Tame

II: The Southland

III: The God's Domain

IV: The Call of Kind

V: The Sleeping Wolf

BÂtard

Moon-Face

Brown Wolf

That Spot

To Build a Fire

Explanatory Notes
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Understanding the Call of the Wild: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
by Claudia Durst Johnson. 268 pgs.

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London's adventure tale The Call of the Wild explores the complex relationships between man and nature, and animals' struggle with their own nature in man's world. In this interdisciplinary study, a rich collection of primary documents point out the many issues that make this story as poignant and pertinent today as when it was written nearly a century ago. Compiled here for the first time is documentation from sources as varied as century-old newspaper accounts, legislative materials, advertisements, poetry, journals, and other startling firsthand accounts. The story's historical setting, the Yukon Gold Rush, is brought vividly into focus for readers, with firsthand accounts of the unimaginable hardships faced by the prospectors in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields.

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The Greenwood Press "Literature in Context" Series Student Casebooks to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents

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Preface

1: Literary Analysis: Adventure and Myth

Suggestions for Further Reading

2: The Alaskan Panhandle and the Yukon Territory

Seal Killing in Alaska

Hazards of Yukon Weather

The Yukon Cold

Suggestions for Further Reading

3: The Yukon Gold Rush

The Initial Discovery of Gold in the Klondike

News of the Yukon Gold Reaches San Francisco

People Prepare to Leave for the Klondike

Transportation to the Yukon

Equipment for Prospectors

Guides for Prospectors

Travel Distances to the Gold Field

The Chilkoot Pass

Ignorance of Would-Be Miners

The Rapids

Another Account of the Rapids

Scarcity of Food

Food Prices

Mining Terminolociy

Claim Form

Mining Operations

Too Much Gold?

The Spell of Yukon

Less Optimistic Views on the Yukon

Suggestions for Further Reading

4: The Sled Dog

The Origin of the Dog

The St. Bernard

A Dog Owner's Description of His St. Bernard

The Newfoundland

Cuffy, the Newfoundland

The Collie

Sled Dogs in the Yukon

The Husky

A Dog Owner's Description of the Husky

Dogsleds

Traveling by Dogsled

The 1925 Diptheria Rescue by Sled Dogs

Suggestions for Further Reading

5: Humans' Relationship with Animals: The Issue of Cruelty

Genesis: The Western-World Tradition

Treatment of Sled Dogs in the Yukon

Brutality Toward Horses and Dogs in the Yukon

The Fate of Horses in the Yukon

A Dog Owner's Treatment of His Dogs

Cruelty to Animals in the name of Fashion

Working for Animal Rights: PETA Takes a Step Further

Suggestions for Further Reading

6: The Wolf: Symbol, Myth, and Issue

Bounties on Wolves in Colonial Massachusetts

Fear and Hatred of the Wolf

Legislation to Protect Endangered Species

Defense of Wolves

Opposition to Designation of the Wolf as an Endangered Species

Protection of the Wolf

Index

About the Author
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The Critical Response to Jack London (Chap. 3 "The Call of the Wild")
by Susan M. Nuernberg. 298 pgs.

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Essays and reviews document the critical response to Jack London's writings from the turn of the century to the present day.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

Contents

Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chronology

Introduction: Jack London's Literary Reputation

Notes

1: To Build a Fire

2: A Daughter of the Snows

3: The Call of the Wild

4: The Sea-Wolf

5: The Iron Heel

6: The Valley of the Moon

7: General Criticism

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Editor

Recent Titles in Critical Responses in Arts and Letters
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Male Call: Becoming Jack London (Chap. 3 "'Congested Mails': Buck and Jack's 'Call'")
by Jonathan Auerbach. 289 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Question of a Name

2: The (White) Man on Trail: London's Northland Stories

3: "Congested Mails": Buck and Jack's "Call"

4: The Subject of Socialism: Postcards from London's Abyss

5: Collaborating Love In and Out of the Kempton-Wace Letters

6: Between Men of Letters: Homoerotic Agon in the Sea-Wolf

Epilogue: Celebrity

Notes

Index
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Solitary Comrade, Jack London and His Work (Chap. Six "The Call of the Wild")
by Joan D. Hedrick. 265 pgs.

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Solitary Comrade Jack London and His Work

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

Part One:: The Lower Class

One: Initiation into Manhood,

Part Two:: The Middle Class

Two: Initiation into Manhood,

Three: Journeying Across the Ghostly Wastes of a Dead World

Four: Descent into the Abyss

Five: The Long Sickness

Six: The Call of the Wild

Seven: The Sea-Wolf, Or,"The Triumph of the Spirit"

Eight: Domesticity: the Future of an Illusion

Nine: The Literary Marketplace

Ten: London's Socialist Fiction

Eleven: Sexual Politics in the Iron Heel

Twelve: Martin Eden, Or, Paradise Lost

Thirteen: Fading Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Chap. 15 "Jack London: The Problem of Form")
by Donald Pizer. 234 pgs.

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Crosscurrents / Modern Critiques / New Series

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Preface to The Second Edition

Introduction

Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

1: Late Nineteenth-Century American Realism

2: Late Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism

3: Nineteenth-Century American Naturalism: An Approach Through Form

4: American Literary Naturalism: The Example of Dreiser

5: The Problem of Philosophy in the Naturalistic Novel

6: The Evolutionary Foundation of W. D. Howells's Criticism and Fiction

7: Evolutionary Ideas in Late Nineteenth-Century English and American Literary Criticism

8: Hamlin Garland and Stephen Crane: The Naturalist as Romantic Individualist

9: Frank Norris's Definition of Naturalism

10: The Significance of Frank Norris's Literary Criticism

11: The Ethical Unity of the Rise of Silas Lapham

12: Hamlin Garland's 1891 Main-Travelled Roads: Local Color as Art

13: Stephen Crane's Maggie and American Naturalism

14: Synthetic Criticism and Frank Norris's the Octopus

15: Jack London: The Problem of Form

16: Theodore Dreiser's Nigger Jeff": The Development of an Aesthetic"

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London's The Call of the Wild (1904)" begins on p. 66)
by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

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This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.

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Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Women’s Roles and Influence in Mark Twain’s the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

The War against the Feminine: Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Doctor She! Helena and Sisterhood in William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well (ca. 1602–1603)

For Further Reading

Mother, Wife, Fallen Woman: Marital Choice in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)

Young Lady or slut: Identity and Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1983)

Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles’ Antigone (441 B.C.E.)

Work Cited

Female Resistance to Gender Conformity in Kate Chopin’s the Awakening (1899)

For Further Reading

Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees (1988)

William Faulkner’s Male Myth: the Bear (1942)

More Than Skin Deep: Robin Mckinley’s Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sylvia Plath’s the Bell Jar: Trapped by the Feminine Mystique (1963)

Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987): Maternal Possibilities, Sisterly Bonding

Richard Wright’s Black Boy (1945, 1991) and Black Women

Works Cited

Culture, Tradition, Family: Gender Roles in Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima (1972)

Girls into Women: Culture, Nature, and Self-Loathing in Toni Morrison’s the Bluest Eye (1970)

Founding Women’s History: Christine de Pizan Writes the Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

Works Cited

A Dystopic Vision of Gender in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932)

An Immigrant Girl’s Quest for the American Dream in Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers (1925)

For Further Reading

As My Mother’s Daughter: Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat (1994)

Non-Conformists and Traditionalists: Buchi Emecheta’s the Bride Price (1976)

The Symbolic Annihilation of Women in Jack London’s the Call of the Wild (1904)

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: Gender in the Middle Ages (ca. 1388–1400)

Sex, Violence, and Peter Pan: J.D.Salinger’s the Catcher in the Eye (1951)

Paths to Liberation in Alice Walker’s the Color Purple (1982)

The Women in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (1866)

Witch-Hunting, Thwarted Desire, and Girl Power: Arthur Miller’s the Crucible (1953)

A Nice Girl Ought to Know! Henry James’ Daisy Miller (1878)

Redefining Female Absence in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949)

Black and White Womanhood in Sherley Anne Williams’ Dessa Rose: Mammies, Ladies, Rebels (1986)

Work Cited

Anne Frank’s the Diary of a Young Girl: Writing a Self—the Female Adolescent Voice (1952)

For Further Reading

The Slammed Door That Still Reverberates: Henrik Ibsen’s a Doll’s House (1879)

Frozen Lives: Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome (1911)

Catherine Barkley: Ernest Hemingway’s a Farewell to Arms (1929)

The Invisible Black Female Artist in Alice Childress’ Florence (1950)

For Further Reading

Daring Creation: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818, Revised 1831)

Shattered Rainbows in Translucent Glass: Tennessee Williams’ the Glass Menagerie (1945)

What It Means to Be a Lady: Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind (1936)

Works Cited

Patriarchy and Property: Women in Pearl S.Buck’s the Good Earth (1931)

No Expectations at All: Women in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861)

Works Cited

Beautiful Fools and Hulking Brutes: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s the Great Gatsby (1925)

Reading between the Lines: Connecting with Gertrude and Ophelia in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (ca. 1600)

Freedom Reconsidered: Margaret Atwood’s the Handmaid’s Tale (1985)

Work Cited

When Women Shape the World: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)

Works Cited

Girls and Women in Sandra Cisneros’ the House on Mango Street (1984)

Living in a Borderland: Cultural Expectations of Gender in Julia Alvarez’ How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991)

A Song of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Good Mother, Bad Mother in Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1964)

Bobbie Ann Mason’s in Country (1985): a Girl’s Quest for Her Father and Herself

The Invisible Women in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (1952)

Works Cited

Be True to Yourself: Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847)

Thinking Different in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club (1989)

Gender Bending: Ursula le Guin’s the Left Hand of Darkness (1969)

What a Teacher Learns: Ernest J.Games’ a Lesson before Dying (1993)

Works Cited

The Foreignness of Femininity in Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim (1900)

Boys’ Club—no Girls Allowed: Absence as Presence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)

Unnatural: Women in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (ca. 1606)

Emma Rouault Bovary: Gendered Reflections in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

(Re)surfacing Main Street (1920) by Sinclair Lewis

Critiquing “the We of Me”: Gender Roles in Carson Mccullers’ the Member of the Wedding (1946)

Works Cited

Beauty and Gender in Alix Kates Shulman’s Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)

Where No Role Fits: Maggie’s Predicament in George Eliot’s the Mill on the Floss (1860)

For Further Reading

Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick: Epic Tale of Male Destruction (1851)

For Further Reading

Images of Possibility: Gender Identity in Willa Cather’s My Àntonia (1918)

Work Cited

The Good Woman: Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a Sieve (1954)

Boyhood Unraveled: Elie Wiesel’s Night (1960)

Sexuality as Rebellion in George Orwell’s 1984 (1949)

Homer’s Odyssey: “the Iliad’s Wife” (ca. 700 B.C.E.)

Jocasta and Her Daughters: Women in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (ca. 430 B.C.E.)

Women Stripped of Humanity: John Steinbeck’s of Mice and Men (1937)

Role Traps in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962)

Under the Burden of Yellow Peril: Race, Class, and Gender in Yoshiko Uchida’s Picture Bride (1987)

For Further Reading

Woman and Art in James Joyce’s a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

Truths Universally Acknowledged: Stereotypes of Women in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Undue Influence in Muriel Spark’s the Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Exploring the Gender Puzzle of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion (1912)

Work Cited

Seasoned with Quiet Strength: Black Womanhood in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Heroism against the Odds: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (ca. 1599)

Molly Bolts and Lifelines: Rita Mae Brown’s Ruby Fruit Jungle (1973)

A as Hester’s Autonomy in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter (1850)

Female Freedom in Other Places and Inner Spaces: Suzanne Fisher Staples’ Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind (1989)

For Further Reading

Gender in Silas Marner by George Eliot (1861)

Empowerment through Writing in Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter (1979)

Wearing “her Favour in the Battle”: the “go-Between” in D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913)

Riding Tennessee Williams’ a Streetcar Named Desire (1947)

Agent or Victim: Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’urbervilles (1891)

An African-American Woman’s Journey of Self-Discovery in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Fragmenting Culture, Fragmenting Lives: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959)

Just a Lady: Gender and Power in Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

Women Righting Wrongs: Morality and Justice in Susan Glaspell’s Trifles (1916)

For Further Reading

For Such as We Are Made Of, Such We Be: the Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will (first Performed 1602)

Work Cited

The Power of Mothers in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

A Chinese-American Woman Warrior Comes of Age: Maxine Hong Kingston’s the Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts (1976)

The Will to Survive in Gloria Naylor’s the Women of Brewster Place (1982)

Procrustean Bed: Gender Roles in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847)

Negotiating Tight Spaces: Women in Michael Dorris’ a Yellow Raft in Blue Water (1988)

Index of Literary Works by Author

Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors
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The Dream of Success: A Study of the Modern American Imagination (Chap. II "Jack London: The Brain Merchant")
by Kenneth S. Lynn. 272 pgs.

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Introduction

Book One: From Rags to Riches

Chapter I: Theodore Dreiser: The Man of Ice

Chapter II: Jack London: The Brain Merchant

B00k Two: The Second Generation

Chapter III: David Graham Phillips: The Dream Panderer

Chapter IV: Frank Norris: Mama's Boy

Chapter V: The Passion of Robert Herrick

Conclusion

Sources

Acknowledgments

Index

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