Michael Lundblad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oslo.

...Lundblad's The Birth of a Jungle is a remarkable achievement and an important contribution to the study of Progressive-Era literature and culture. ... By analyzing animals and environments as discursive formations that produce a range of power relations and identity formations, Lundblad's work ultimately suggests that we ought to supplement our contemporary political contestations over 'actual' animals and environments with a cultural politics that attends just as vigorously to their representations.

• Introduction ; The Nature of the Beast in U.S. Culture ; Part I: Epistemology of the Jungle ; 1. Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast in Henry James ; 2. Between Species: Queering the Wolf in Jack London ; Part II: Survival of the Fittest Market ; 3. The Octopus and the Corporation: ; Monstrous Animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie ; 4. The Working-Class Beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair ; Part III: The Evolution of Race ; 5. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness ; 6. Black Savage, White Animal: Tarzan's American Jungle ; Epilogue ; Animal Legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" ; Works Cited ; Index

Michael Lundblad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oslo.

...Lundblad's The Birth of a Jungle is a remarkable achievement and an important contribution to the study of Progressive-Era literature and culture. ... By analyzing animals and environments as discursive formations that produce a range of power relations and identity formations, Lundblad's work ultimately suggests that we ought to supplement our contemporary political contestations over 'actual' animals and environments with a cultural politics that attends just as vigorously to their representations.

• Introduction ; The Nature of the Beast in U.S. Culture ; Part I: Epistemology of the Jungle ; 1. Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast in Henry James ; 2. Between Species: Queering the Wolf in Jack London ; Part II: Survival of the Fittest Market ; 3. The Octopus and the Corporation: ; Monstrous Animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie ; 4. The Working-Class Beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair ; Part III: The Evolution of Race ; 5. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness ; 6. Black Savage, White Animal: Tarzan's American Jungle ; Epilogue ; Animal Legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" ; Works Cited ; Index

Michael Lundblad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oslo.

...Lundblad's The Birth of a Jungle is a remarkable achievement and an important contribution to the study of Progressive-Era literature and culture. ... By analyzing animals and environments as discursive formations that produce a range of power relations and identity formations, Lundblad's work ultimately suggests that we ought to supplement our contemporary political contestations over 'actual' animals and environments with a cultural politics that attends just as vigorously to their representations.

• Introduction ; The Nature of the Beast in U.S. Culture ; Part I: Epistemology of the Jungle ; 1. Progressive-Era Sexuality and the Nature of the Beast in Henry James ; 2. Between Species: Queering the Wolf in Jack London ; Part II: Survival of the Fittest Market ; 3. The Octopus and the Corporation: ; Monstrous Animality in Norris, Spencer, and Carnegie ; 4. The Working-Class Beast: Frank Norris and Upton Sinclair ; Part III: The Evolution of Race ; 5. Archaeology of a Humane Society: Animality, Savagery, Blackness ; 6. Black Savage, White Animal: Tarzan's American Jungle ; Epilogue ; Animal Legacies: William Jennings Bryan and the Scopes "Monkey Trial" ; Works Cited ; Index