The Jungle - Modern Critical Interpretations

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle not only drew attention from the likes of Winston Churchill and President Theodore Roosevelt—it drew action. The novel's depiction of what takes place in a meat-processing plant pressed the U.S. government into taking steps to regulate the industry. Examine the work with this text.

The title, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Upton Sinclair, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.