The birth of a jungle animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture
Title:
The birth of a jungle animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture
Author:
Lundblad, Michael.
ISBN:
9780199917587
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Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill.
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".
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Electronic Access:
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