Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Jack London: Darwinism and the evolution of Jack London / Lawrence I. Berkove -- Biography of Jack London / Earle Labor -- The Paris review perspective / Robert Roper -- Love in the time of Darwinism: dialectical approximations in Jack London's Martin Eden / Kenneth K. Brandt -- Jack London in context / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- The literary careers of Mark Twain and Jack London / Jeanne Campbell Reesman -- The critical reception of Jack London / Donna M. Campbell -- Jack London: blond beasts and supermen / Charles Child Walcutt -- Jack London's heart of darkness / Sam Baskett -- Jack London's use of Carl Jung's Psychology of the unconscious / James I. McClintock -- "The Kipling of the Klondike": naturalism in London's early fiction / Earl Wilcox -- From "All Gold Canyon" to The acorn-planter: Jack London's agrarian vision / Earle Labor -- Androgyny in the novels of Jack London / Clarice Stasz -- A romantic novel / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- The cell / James Williams -- Introduction to Jack London's tales of cannibals and headhunters / Gary Riedl, Thomas R. Tietze -- New York City, social progress, and the crowd: Jack London's "Telic action & collective stupidity" / Susan Nuernberg -- Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the "Great white hope" / Jeanne Campbell Reesman.