Giehmann, Barbara Stefanie
Writing the Northland

Jack London's and Robert W. Service's Imaginary Geography.

The book provides a comparison of the two authors, examining their depiction of the "Northland" at the time of the Klondike gold rush and afterwards. Applying the concept of imaginary geography to the North, the book focuses on labels attached to the North by non-northerners. It explores how the Northland appears as "Frontier", "Eldorado", "Blank Space", "Projection Space for Ideologies of White Masculinity," and "Wilderness". The reader learns about how the two authors used, but also deviated from, well-known ideas about the North to create their Northland. 455 Seiten, broschiert (Epistemata. Reihe Literaturwissenschaft; Band 717/Königshausen & Neumann 2010) leichte Lagerspuren/near mint