The Jungle Norton Critical Edition: An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Backgrounds, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) - Softcover

Sinclair, Upton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039397779X ISBN 13: 9780393977790

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Sinclair Upton

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"Contexts and Backgrounds" provides readers with an understanding of The Jungle's disparate social, historical, political, and literary dimensions. Included are autobiographical selections by the author; contemporary perspectives on the meatpacking industry, including writings by Theodore Dreiser, Adolphe Smith, and J. Ogden Armour; and commentary on the living conditions of immigrant workers. Historical studies by Jimmy Skaggs, Rick Halpern, James Barrett, Robert M. Crunden, John Braeman, William Cronon, and Eric Schlosser address the central issues: slaughterhouse abuses, protectionism and The Beef Trust, muckraking, Progressivism, and consumer rights. "Criticism" collects eight provocative readings of The Jungle as a literary text, as a historical document in its own right, as a contribution to Progressive-era muckraking, and as an important work in urban, economic, and labor history. Contributions include Jack London, Edward Clark Marsh, Winston Spencer Churchill, Walter Rideout, June Howard, Scott Derrick, Michael Brewster Folsom, and Christopher P. Wilson. A Selected Bibliography is also included.

Biografía del autor:

Clare Virginia Eby is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo, editor of Theodore Dreiser's The Genius, and co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Theodore Dreiser.

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• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 039397779X
• ISBN 13: 9780393977790
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 526