Cover: The Jungle, 1st Edition by Upton Sinclair; Edited with an Introduction by Christopher Phelps

The Jungle

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First  Edition©2005  Upton Sinclair; Edited with an Introduction by Christopher Phelps

ISBN:9781319241704

ISBN:9780312400378

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Inspiring the passage in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, The Jungle stands as a classic of piece of twentieth-century American literature and social protest. Containing a critical introduction to a wide range of issues raised by the text, including early twentieth-century working conditions, immigrant community, race and gender, political reform, supporting documents illustrate the continuing relevance of the investigation that eventually led to the novel.

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Table of Contents

Contents

    Foreword
    Preface
    A Note about the Text
    
PART ONE

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?
    
PART TWO

The Jungle
    
PART THREE

Related Document
Charles P. Neill and James Bronson Reynolds, Conditions

in Chicago Stock Yards, June 4, 1906
    
Appendixes
       An Upton Sinclair Chronology (1878–1968)
       Questions for Consideration
       Selected Bibliography
 Index

Upton Sinclair

Christopher Phelps

Christopher Phelps is associate professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham in England. A specialist in twentieth-century American intellectual and political history, he is author of Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (1997) and edited and introduced Max Shachtmans Race and Revolution for Verso (2003). He has twice received the Fulbright Award: in 2000 to teach American philosophy and intellectual history in Hungary, and in 2004-2005 to serve as Distinguished Chair in American Studies for Poland. He has written articles and reviews for many periodicals, including Times Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, New Politics, and The Nation.