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The Jungle

First Edition

Publication Date: February 03, 2005

Paperback ISBN: 9780312400378

Pages: 200

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

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Table of Contents
Authors

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.