Jungle

Name: Jungle
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ISBN: 9780312400378

ISBN-10: 0312400373

ISBN-13: 9780312400378

Edition: 2005

Authors: Upton Sinclair, Christopher Phelps

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Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, which inspired passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, stands as a classic of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. In this accessible and thorough edition by Christopher Phelps, a critical introduction addresses the wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, and the continuing relevance of Sinclair’s investigation. This edition uses the most widely recognized text of The Jungle— the Doubleday, Page edition published in 1906 — and provides an illuminating supporting document: President Theodore…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 2/3/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.66" wide x 8.29" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


A Note about the Text



Introduction: Upton Sinclair and the Social Novel Into


The Jungle


Muckraking and Reform in the Progressive Era


The Politics of Socialism and Labor


The Novel as Social History: Immigration, Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in The Jungle


The Jungle as Literature


Upton Sinclair and the Legacy of The Jungle Is It Still True?



The Jungle



Related Document


Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds, Conditions in Chicago Stock Yards, June 4, 1906


Appendixes


An Upton Sinclair Chronology (1878ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1968