The birth of a jungle
Subtitle: animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture
By: Michael Lundblad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780199917570
Subjects: Animals in literature; Human-animal relationships in literature; American literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the nature of the beast in U.S. culture; title: Epistemology of the jungle; title: Progressive-Era sexuality and the nature of the beast in Henry James; title: Between species: queering the wolf in Jack London; title: Survival of the fittest market. The octopus and The corporation: monstrous animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie; title: The working-class beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair; title: The evolution of race.  Archaeology of a humane society: animality, savagery, blackness; title: Black savage, white animal: Tarzan's American jungle; title: Epilogue; title: Animal legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial".