Civil war (1642-1648) and the English Bourgeois Revolution

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide fame. He is best remembered as the author of The Call of the Wild and White Fang. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel. Typically London’s writings contained themes of: Jack London's life, Evolution, Brutality of society, Socialism, Adjustment of man against elemental ways of life.

19. The American Novel of the 1st half of the 20th c. Th. Dreiser’s work
At the beginning of the 20th century, American novelists were expanding fiction's social spectrum to depict both high and low life and sometimes connected to the naturalist school of realism. Some directly political writings discussed social issues and power of corporations. Journalistic critics depicted a stinging description of the education system and modern life. Race was a common issue as well, discussing racial and sexual inequalities. Depression era literature was blunt and direct in its social criticism.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, was published in 1911. An American Tragedy, published in 1925 expresses a highly critical view of the American legal system also made him the adopted champion of social reformers.