Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-era Literature and Culture

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Michael Lundblad, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-era Literature and Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)

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Making the case for the sub-field of animality studies, Lundblad’s US-focused literary and cultural history might strike some as a departure from studying animals in literature, but it uncovers striking alternatives to Darwin and Freud running wild in the period obsessed with identifying, interpreting, and ultimately controlling “animal instincts.” - SUSAN McHUGH