On The Image Of Wilderness In Jack London's Works

Jack London (1876-1916) is one of the greatest American novelists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is well known as the writer who brought vivid description of animals into the American literature. People pay little attention to his magnificent description of the wilderness, and his contribution to literature's idea of what the relationship between man and wilderness should be. In fact, all his writings testify to a deep love and unique understanding of the wilderness. This thesis mainly focuses on the interpretation of Jack London's image of wilderness and its reflection in his fictions.To discover reasons for the formation of Jack London's image of wilderness, this thesis has examined both Jack London's life experience and some social influences over him,including naturalism, historical cultural background and socio-historical situation. Because of the influences, Jack London has formed the ideas about the relationship between man and nature. In Jack London's point of view, the natural unspoiled place is corrupted by the march of civilization and the modern industrialization. The natural and healthy relationships between man and nature, man and man, as well as man and himself in the primordial times are replaced by...