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Jack London's Seafaring Women: Desire, Risk, and Savagery

Jack London's Seafaring Women: Desire, Risk, and Savagery Jack London's Seafaring Women Desire, Risk, and Savagery Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College There is no doubt that the positive attributes of Jack London's strong seafaring female characters, Maud Brewster in The Sea-Wolf (1904), Joan Lackland in Adventure (1911), and Margaret West in The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1913), are inspired by his wife Charmian. London wrote Maud Brewster into the The Sea-Wolf during the initial throes of a passionate romance with Charmian, before he knew her as an intrepid sailor in her own right. Soon after, she would be an active crewmember on their fiftyseven-foot ketch, the Snark, during their two-year voyage in the South Pacific: she kept watches, took her turn at the helm, and often steered the vessel into unfamiliar anchorages. Adventure was composed on the Snark after months of voyaging on the high seas and fresh from their adventures among the Solomon Island headhunters. The Mutiny of the Elsinore was inspired by Jack and Charmian's 1912 voyage around Cape Horn from Baltimore to Seattle on the Dirigo, one of the last working windjammers. The sea novels are apt texts for an examination of contradictions in London's fictional treatment of race, class, and gender, problems http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in American Naturalism University of Nebraska Press

Jack London's Seafaring Women: Desire, Risk, and Savagery

Studies in American Naturalism , Volume 8 (2) – Feb 26, 2013

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Jack London's Seafaring Women Desire, Risk, and Savagery Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College There is no doubt that the positive attributes of Jack London's strong seafaring female characters, Maud Brewster in The Sea-Wolf (1904), Joan Lackland in Adventure (1911), and Margaret West in The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1913), are inspired by his wife Charmian. London wrote Maud Brewster into the The Sea-Wolf during the initial throes of a passionate romance with Charmian, before he knew her as an intrepid sailor in her own right. Soon after, she would be an active crewmember on their fiftyseven-foot ketch, the Snark, during their two-year voyage in the South Pacific: she kept watches, took her turn at the helm, and often steered the vessel into unfamiliar anchorages. Adventure was composed on the Snark after months of voyaging on the high seas and fresh from their adventures among the Solomon Island headhunters. The Mutiny of the Elsinore was inspired by Jack and Charmian's 1912 voyage around Cape Horn from Baltimore to Seattle on the Dirigo, one of the last working windjammers. The sea novels are apt texts for an examination of contradictions in London's fictional treatment of race, class, and gender, problems

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Published: Feb 26, 2013

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