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Jack London's Allegorical Landscapes: "The God of His Fathers," "The Priestly Prerogative"
Literature and belief, Vol.21(1-2), pp.59-75
2001
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/5615
Abstract
Like that of many of his fellow naturalistic writers, Jack London's response to the question of belief throughout his life and career in both complex and paradoxical. Born to a spiritualist mother whose seances were part of his earliest recollections, London read Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and Herbert Spencer's First Principles (1862) before leaving high school, and for the rest of his life he would proclaim his belief in materialist and determinist thought, even while quoting Bible verses to his daughter Joan and recommending that she study the life of Christ because "Christ was a big man" (Labor, Leitz, and Shepard 1339). A similarly bifurcated view characterizes London's approach to belief throughout his writing career.
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- Title
- Jack London's Allegorical Landscapes: "The God of His Fathers," "The Priestly Prerogative"
- Creators
- Donna Campbell (Author)
- Publication Details
- Literature and belief, Vol.21(1-2), pp.59-75
- Academic Unit
- English, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900501782501842
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- In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article