Eva Deinzer 
The representation of immigrant life in Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ [EPUB ebook] 

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject American Studies – Literature, grade: 1, 3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), course: American Culture and Society During the Progressive Era, language: English, abstract: In my paper I would primarily like to demonstrate how Sinclair represents the immigrant life in his book and how it ties with the reality at that time. However, before coming to this I would like to outline the immigration to and the urbanization in the United States in the Progressive Era and give a short summary of The Jungle.