Upton Sinclair's The jungle / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - New ed. - New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2010. - vii, 184 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical interpretations . - Bloom's modern critical interpretations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A note on Upton Sinclair's The jungle / G.S. Balarama Gupta -- From The jungle to The fasting cure : Upton Sinclair on American food / William Bloodworth -- The two lives of Jurgis Rudkus / Matthew J. Morris -- In search of left ecology's usable past : The jungle, social change, and the class character of environmental impairment / Steven Rosendale -- Processes of elimination : progressive-era hygienic ideology, waste, and Upton Sinclair's The jungle / J. Michael Duvall -- The jungle : from Lithuanian peasant to American socialist / Orm Øverland -- Sinclair's sources and his choice of Lithuanian character / Giedrius SubacÌius -- Discursive determinism in Upton Sinclair's The jungle / Michael Moghtader -- Writers that changed the world : Samuel Richardson, Upton Sinclair, and the strategies of social reform / Elizabeth Kraft -- Chronology.

Presents critical essays on Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and includes a chronology, a bibliography, and an introduction by critic Harold Bloom.

9781604138870 (hardcover) 1604138874 (hardcover)

2010009945


Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Jungle.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 --Political and social views.


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


Chicago (Ill.)--In literature.

PS3537.I85 / J973 2010

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