Jack London: a writing sailor, a sailing writer

• Authors: Łaszkiewicz, Weronika

Abstracts

EN

The following paper analyzes how the experience of sailing shaped Jack London’s life and works. On the one hand, the paper recounts those events from the writer’s biography which contributed to his emotional attachment to the sea and created a realistic background for his texts. On the other hand, it focuses on a selection of London’s works—“Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan”, “Chris Farrington: Able Seaman”, The Sea-Wolf, and Martin Eden—in order to investigate how the experience of sea and sailing affects a character’s morality/personality, and to examine how the chosen narratives reflect and preserve London’s own memories of life on board.

Keywords

EN

Jack London; sea; ocean; sailing

• Publisher: The University of Bialystok
• Journal: Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 6

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Łaszkiewicz, Weronika

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11320/3087

DOI

10.15290/cr.2014.06.3.02