(In this same note, London comments on the novel’s sociological motif and 262 Western American Literature (1) examine Larsen’s philosophical outlook and its similarity to Nietz sche’s Revaluation of Values (2) compare Larsen’s psychological turmoil with Nietzsche’s “the long sickness,” a psychological malaise which the German scholar predicted and personally experienced as a direct conse quence of his Revaluation and (3) examine the causal link between Larsen’s psychological turmoil and his mysterious physical collapse, com paring that collapse with Nictzsche’s own well-documented decline. Quoted in Charmian London, The Book of Jack London (New York: Century, 1921), II, p. 2In an effort to clarify the Nietzschean content of The Sea-Wolf, London wrote, in part: I want to make a tale so plain that he who runs may read, and then there is the underlying psychological motif. 309-323, are two of the limited number of studies to discuss the Nietzschean content of The Sea-Wolf in detail. 16-24 and Katherine Littell’s “The ‘Nietzschean’ and the Individualist in Jack London’s Socialist Writings,” Amerikastudien, 22:2 (1977), pp. Forrest Winston Parkay’s “The Influence of Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra on London’s The Sea-Wolf’’ Jack London Newsletter, 4:1 (Jan.
490, suggest that the novel’s treatment of Nietzsche’s thought is restricted to a Darwinistic interpretation of the Superman and the theory of the Will to Power.
165 and James Hart, The Oxford Companion to American Literature (New York: Oxford Univ. Patrick Bridgwater, Nietzsche in Anglosaxony: A Study of Nietzsche’s Impact on English and American Literature (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester Univ. 112, 311, find no evidence of Nietzschean theory in The Sea-Wolf. 95, 266-267 and Charles Child Walcutt, American Literary Naturalism: A Divided Stream (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1976), pp. Andrew Sinclair, Jack: A Biography of Jack London (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), pp. The following discussion will: 1Critics are not agreed on the extent of this influence.
M I C H A E L Q U A L T I E R E Cambridge, Massachusetts Nietzschean Psychology in London’s The Sea-Wolf The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on Jack London’sThe Sea-Wolf has been discussed in numerous studies,1but none has focused specifically on an element London considered essential to the book: Nietzschean psychology.2 This study will suggest that the complex mental life of Wolf Larsen, the novel’s central figure, was expressly designed to reflect Nietzsche’s personal psychological history. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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