The Jungle: An Authoritative Text, Contexts and Backgrounds, Criticism - Brossura

Sinclair, Upton; Eby, Clare Virginia

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ISBN 10: 039397779X ISBN 13: 9780393977790

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2002

Riassunto

This story of the immigrant experience in the harrowing Chicago stockyards has drawn comment from historians, policymakers, and literary critics, and it is a widely assigned teaching text. The novel is accompanied by an introduction and explanatory annotations."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and consumer rights."Criticism" collects eight provocative readings of The Jungle as a literary text, as a historical document in its own right, as a contribution to Progressive-era muckraking, and as an important work in urban, economic, and labor history.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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 039397779X
• ISBN 13: 9780393977790
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 526