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Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn

Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn Jon A. Yoder Western American Literature, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 1976, pp. 103-119 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1976.0050 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530858/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:27 GMT from JHU Libraries J O N A . Y O D E R W estm in ster College Dear Sinclair: I like the “Jack L o n d o n ” chapter very m uch, but its onslaughts upon alcohol make it impossible for us. We are com ­ m itted to the revival of the saloon, exactly as it was. America misses it, and is m uch the worse for the lack of it. L ondon, sober, w ould have w ritten nothing worth reading. Alcohol made him. . . . Yours, M en cken / There is another sense in which the fact of homosexual passion contradicts a national m yth of masculine love. . . . T h e existence of overt homosexuality threatens to compro­ mise an essential aspect of Am erican sentim ental life: the cama­ raderie of the locker room and ball park, the good fellowship of the poker game and fishing trip, a kind http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Western American Literature University of Nebraska Press

Jack London as Wolf Barleycorn

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Jon A. Yoder Western American Literature, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 1976, pp. 103-119 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/wal.1976.0050 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/530858/summary Access provided at 24 Feb 2020 16:27 GMT from JHU Libraries J O N A . Y O D E R W estm in ster College Dear Sinclair: I like the “Jack L o n d o n ” chapter very m uch, but its onslaughts upon alcohol make it impossible for us. We are com ­ m itted to the revival of the saloon, exactly as it was. America misses it, and is m uch the worse for the lack of it. L ondon, sober, w ould have w ritten nothing worth reading. Alcohol made him. . . . Yours, M en cken / There is another sense in which the fact of homosexual passion contradicts a national m yth of masculine love. . . . T h e existence of overt homosexuality threatens to compro­ mise an essential aspect of Am erican sentim ental life: the cama­ raderie of the locker room and ball park, the good fellowship of the poker game and fishing trip, a kind

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Western American LiteratureUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 4, 2017

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