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.
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.
Michael Lundblad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oslo.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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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