Michael Lundblad

The Birth of a Jungle

Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 405g
• ISBN-13: 9780190231583
• ISBN-10: 0190231580
• Artikelnr.: 47863379

Autorenporträt

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