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Upton Sinclair's the Jungle (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

By Harold Bloom

Book information

Publisher
Chelsea House Publications
Year
2001
ISBN
0791063410, 9780791063415
LCC
PS3537.I85 J973 2002
Open Library ID
OL3951939M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
830 kB (849756 bytes)
Pages
185\185
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle not only drew attention from the likes of Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosevelt—it drew action. The novel's depiction of what takes place in a meat-processing plant pressed the U.S. government into taking steps to regulate the industry. Examine the work with this text.The title, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Upton Sinclair, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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