| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-204) and index. |
| Contents |
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." |
| Summary |
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 20th century in the United States. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animals in literature.
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Animals in literature. |
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lundblad, Michael. Birth of a jungle. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2013 9780199917570 (DLC) 2012019591 (OCoLC)794323709 |
| ISBN |
9780199917587 (electronic book) |
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0199917582 (electronic book) |
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9780199917570 |
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0199917574 |
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0190231580 |
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9780190231583 |
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