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Analysis Of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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A target for criticism for decades, Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle has been controversial since its first publishing in 1906. Literary critics commonly discredit the novel’s formal features; usually associating its failures to Sinclair’s political ideology. While historians give blame to external events, especially in political context to the novel’s popularity. In either argument, it is agreed that the novel is a loser (Wilson). Sinclair himself knew that his book was poorly written, “In truth, its literary faults are evident enough, its skeleton sticks through its very joints” (Sinclair). However, for all its faults, The Jungle was clearly Sinclair’s finest work so far in his career. Bloodworth argues that Sinclair’s books were written as specific
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