Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London

Kenneth K. Brandtis professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the executive coordinator of the Jack London Society, the editor of The Call: The Magazine of the Jack London Society, and has published articles on Charles Bukowski, Ernest Hemingway, Robinson Jeffers, Jack London, Cormac McCarthy, and Joyce Carol Oates. His forthcoming book is Jack London: Writers and Their Work. Jeanne Campbell Reesmanis professor of English and Jack and Laura Richmond Endowed Fellow in American Literature at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She has served there as graduate director of the PhD in English; division director of English, classics, philosophy, and communication; and graduate dean. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Jack London, including most recently Jack London's Racial Livesand, with Sara. S. Hodson, Jack London, Photographer. She is at work on her latest book, Mark Twain vs. God: The Story of a Relationship. She has served as a Fulbright Professor in Greece (2007) and France (2010).

This outstanding volume invites instructors to consider a much larger number of works than are generally assigned. It provides a solid grounding in the literary and historical context necessary for newcomers to London and fresh ideas for those who have taught the canonical texts before. --John Dudley, University of South Dakota