The Jungle, Upton Sinclair - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Blinderman, Abraham, ed. Critics on Upton Sinclair: Readings in Literary Criticism. Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, 1975, 128 p.

Contains a section on early criticism of The Jungle.

Cook, Timothy. “Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and Orwell's Animal Farm: A Relationship Explored.” Modern Fiction Studies 30, no. 4 (Winter 1984): 696-703.

Views Orwell's Animal Farm as a possible response to the socialist idealism of The Jungle.

Folsom, Michael Brewster. “Upton Sinclair's Escape from The Jungle: The Narrative Strategy and Suppressed Conclusion of America's First Proletarian Novel.” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 4 (1979): 237-66.

Argues against interpretations of The Jungle as a mere muckraking novel.

O'Shea, Elzbieta. “The Whale and ‘The Jungle.’” In Upton Sinclair:...

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