Last Stands and Frontier Justice: In Jack London s Pacific and Ernest Hemingway s Key West

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Anita Duneer

Studies in American Naturalism, Vol.11(1), pp.23-42

07/01/2016

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Title: Last Stands and Frontier Justice: In Jack London s Pacific and Ernest Hemingway s Key West
Author/Creator: Anita Duneer
Publication Details: Studies in American Naturalism, Vol.11(1), pp.23-42
Annotation: Comparison study of their sea novels, examining each author s thematic treatment of loss, change, and violence considering Custer s Last Stand myth. Contends that for Hemingway s characters the threat of encroaching civilization upon the idealized sea is more tragic and nostalgic than for London s whose strength and endurance enable them to envision a hopeful future. Compares To Have and Have Not, The Old Man and the Sea, and Islands in the Stream to London s The Sea-Wolf (1904) and A Son of the Sun (1912).
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015132342103691