The birth of a jungle : animality in progressive-era U.S. literature and culture /

Exemplifying a new methodology identified as 'animality studies' that focuses on constructions of animality at specific historical and cultural moments, without the explicit emphasis on animal advocacy that is often found in animal studies, this book explores animality at the turn of the 2...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lundblad, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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