- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Birth of a jungle (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Birth of a jungle (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-204) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: the nature of the beast in U.S. culture -- Epistemology of the jungle -- Progressive-Era sexuality and the nature of the beast in Henry James -- Between species: queering the wolf in Jack London -- Survival of the fittest market. The octopus and The corporation: monstrous animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie -- The working-class beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair -- The evolution of race. Archaeology of a humane society: animality, savagery, blackness -- Black savage, white animal: Tarzan's American jungle -- Epilogue -- Animal legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial".
- LCCN
- 2012019591
- OCLC
- ssj0000885783
- Author
Lundblad, Michael.
- Title
The birth of a jungle [electronic resource] : animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture / Michael Lundblad.
- Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-204) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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