Upton Sinclair's The jungle edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - Philadelphia Chelsea House Publishers c2002. - vii, 176 p. 25 cm. - Modern critical interpretations .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-165) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The muckraker / Jon A. Yoder -- Upton Sinclair's escape from The jungle: the narrative strategy and suppressed conclusion of America's first proletarian novel / Michael Brewster Folsom -- Introduction to The jungle / Morris Dickstein -- Upton Sinclair's The jungle and Orwell's Animal farm: a relationship explored / Timothy Cook -- Muckraking and fame: The jungle / R. N. Mookerjee -- Afterword to The jungle / Emory Elliott -- The call of the wild and The jungle: Jack London's and Upton Sinclair's animal and human jungles / Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin -- What a beating feels like: authorship, dissolution and masculinity in Sinclair's The jungle / Scott Derrick -- The two lives of Jurgis Rudkus / Matthew J. Morris.

0791063410 (alk. paper)

2001047152


Sinclair, Upton 1878-1968. Jungle.


Political fiction, American--History and criticism.
Immigrants in literature.
Working class in literature.


Chicago Ill.--In literature.

PS3537.I85 / J973 2002

813.52 / U71