The birth of a jungle: animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture
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Beteilige Person: Lundblad, Michael 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York Oxford University Press [2013]
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-204) and index
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"
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 218 Seiten)
ISBN:9780199917587
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917570.001.0001