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Human Document Charmian London’s Role in the Composition of Th e Road Iris Jamahl Dunkle, Napa Valley College In 1907, Jack London published Th e Road, his fi rst- hand account of life on the road as a tramp. Th e essays fi rst appeared serially in Cosmopolitan Magazine and then were collected and released as a book by Macmillan later that same year. But this upbeat collection of interconnected essays wasn’t the fi rst time London had written about the subject. In fact, the book was a signifi cant revision of his earlier, less successful essay also titled “Th e Road” which he’d written in 1896 when he was only twenty years old. Between his early essay and the fi nal book of connected essays, huge shifts occurred in his point of view. London’s early essay was one of ob- servation, wherein he viewed the tramp as an outsider, people who existed on “the ragged edge of nonentity” (“Th e Road” 65). His scholarly tone is enhanced by allusions to Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson and his adoption of the pronoun “we” as if he were a member of his middle- class audience instead of
Studies in American Naturalism – University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 19, 2019
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