Title:
The jungle : an authoritative text, contexts and backgrounds, criticism / Upton Sinclair ; edited by Clare Virginia Eby.
Author:
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Eby, Clare Virginia.
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Publication Information:
New York : Norton, c2003.
Call Number:
PS3537 .I85 J85 2003
Abstract:
"The Jungle's influence has been extraordinary for a literary work. Upton Sinclair's 1906 landmark novel is widely credited with awakening the public fury that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), a watershed in consumer protection and government legislation. 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."--Jacket.
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393977790
Series:
A Norton critical edition
A Norton critical edition.
Physical Description:
xii, 526 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Excerpts from the Appeal to Reason version of The jungle -- [Sinclair and sentimentalism] -- [An alternate ending] -- [The early life of a muckraker] -- What life means to me -- [What socialism means to me] -- [Art and propaganda].
[Interview with P.D. Armour] / [Portrait of a Beef Baron] / [The beef trust] / [The perfection of capitalism] / [Cruelty to animals] / [A packer's rebuttal] / [Division of labor in the meatpacking industry] / [Social and economic implications of the Division of Labor]
From Lithuania to the Chicago stockyards : an autobiography / [Immigrant wages and family budgets] / Housing conditions in Chicago, Ill. : back of the yards / The social problems at the Chicago Stock Yards / [Immigrant women and prostitution] / The "poor man's club" : social functions of the urban working-class saloon
[Market conditions and the beef trust] / [Racial and ethnic divisions in the slaughterhouses] / [Packingtown's women workers and labor resistance] / [Muckraking, progressivism, and the Pure Food and Drug Law] / [The packing industry in the ecosystem] / [Back to The jungle : a view from the Twenty-first Century]
What Jack London says of The jungle / The jungle / The Chicago scandals : the novel which is making history / [Jurgis's conversion] / [Sinclair's documentary strategy] / [Gender in The jungle] / [The development of The jungle] / [The ironies of progressive era authorship]
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