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The birth of a jungle : animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture
- Author
- Lundblad, Michael.
- Title
- The birth of a jungle : animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture / Michael Lundblad.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
- Description
- xi, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-204) and index.
- Contents
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- 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".
- Kinsey subjects
- Literature--United States--20th century. Animal behavior.
- Genre heading
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- ISBN
- 9780199917570 0199917574