Books by Cecelia Tichi

Offers a richly illustrated exploration of the American era of gear-and-girder technology. A major consequence of this technology was its effect on the arts, in particular the literary arts. Three prominent American writers of the time - Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and William Carlos Williams - became designer-engineers of the word.

From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the American environment has been represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances of embodiment, Tichi exposes the historically varied and often contrary geomorphic expression of a national paradigm.

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. Thoroughly exploring London's importance as an artist and as a political and public figure, Tichi brings to life a man who merits recognition as one of America's foremost public intellectuals.