Jack London and the Demon Alcohol: “John Barleycorn” (1913) and American Temperance Literature
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- УДК / UDK: 82(091)
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The paper strives to reveal the background of Jack London’s novel John Barleycorn (1913) which is analyzed in the context of Temperance Movement and the topoi that are typical for its visual propaganda and literature. Jack London used the conventions and clichees typical for Temperance literature, changing them, however, renewing Temperance rhetoric and introducing innovations that allowed the writer to break the limits of the canon and to create a unique, complex, and original work, its literary form and message going far beyond the Temperance agenda.
- Keywords: Jack London, John Barleycorn, Temperance Movement, Temperance literature, topoi, Walt Whitman, Charles Lamb
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