Birth of a Jungle - Animality in Progressive-Era U.s. Literature and Culture

Zusatztext Scholars aiming to do such rethinking amid this text's complex matrix of ideas should find The Birth of a Jungle an essential resource. Informationen zum Autor Michael Lundblad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oslo. Klappentext The Birth of a Jungle probes the historical emergence of the jungle as a discourse in the U.S during the Progressive Era through readings of fiction by Jack London, Frank Norris, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others alongside nonfiction by Darwin, Freud, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Jennings Bryan. Zusammenfassung The Birth of a Jungle probes the historical emergence of the jungle as a discourse in the U.S during the Progressive Era through readings of fiction by Jack London, Frank Norris, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and others alongside nonfiction by Darwin, Freud, Theodore Roosevelt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and William Jennings Bryan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Nature of the Beast in U.S. Culture Part I: Epistemology of the Jungle 1. Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast in Henry James 2. Between Species: Queering the Wolf in Jack London Part II: Survival of the Fittest Market 3. The Octopus and the Corporation: Monstrous Animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie 4. The Working-Class Beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair Part III: The Evolution of Race 5. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness 6. Black Savage, White Animal: Tarzan's American Jungle Epilogue Animal Legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" Works Cited Index

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• Authors: Michael Lundblad, Michael (Assistant Professor of English Lundblad, Lundblad Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9780190231583
• ISBN: 978-0-19-023158-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, English, HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Animals & society, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Animals and society, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form