Title
Last Stands and Frontier Justice: In Jack London’s Pacific and Ernest Hemingway’s Key West
Document Type
Article
Annotation
Comparison study of their sea novels, examining each author’s thematic treatment of loss, change, and violence considering Custer’s Last Stand myth. Contends that for Hemingway’s characters the threat of encroaching civilization upon the idealized sea is more tragic and nostalgic than for London’s whose strength and endurance enable them to envision a hopeful future. Compares To Have and Have Not, The Old Man and the Sea, and Islands in the Stream to London’s The Sea-Wolf (1904) and A Son of the Sun (1912).
Published in
Studies in American Naturalism
Volume
11
Issue
1
Date
Summer 2016
Pages
23-42
COinS
Citation
Duneer, Anita. “Last Stands and Frontier Justice: In Jack London’s Pacific and Ernest Hemingway’s Key West.” Studies in American Naturalism 11, no. 1 (Summer 2016): 23-42.