The Development of Great Muscular Vigor

Two-part article on training, exercise, diet, drinking, and other habits for building muscle

MacFadden's Physical Training

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The Most Well-Developed Man in England

Bernarr Macfadden; J. Briggs; Londo

Feats of Strength, MacFadden

Additional exercises on reverse of this articl

Excerpts from MacFadden's Physical Training Instruction Book

Special exercise demonstrations from MacFadden's instruction book that were republished in some issues of his magazine

Letter, 1934 Sept. 27, N.Y.C., to Amelia Earhart, Rye, N.Y.

Letter, Bernarr Macfadden to Amelia Earhart, regarding an aviation association, September 27, 193

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Naturalism's Dietary Discourse

This paper examines the literature of Upton Sinclair, famed American author of The Jungle, and how this 1906 novel led to the formation of Theodore Roosevelt’s Food and Drug Administration. I am particularly interested in Sinclair’s fascination with fasting fads, which reflect a larger Progressive-era preoccupation with physical fitness and the white male body. American literary naturalism, the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century movement to which Sinclair contributes, is a literature of and about human hunger. Many scholars have focused on The Jungle, a seminal book that revolutionized the food industry; however, little work has been done on the narratives about fasting and fitness that followed. My work therefore draws attention to a dietary discourse that reveals a great deal about early twentieth-century conceptions of masculinity, health, and the body. This paper is part of a larger effort to reconcile a counter-narrative of culturally disordered eating and self-restraint on the one hand with the ecological ethics so central to naturalism’s politically radical sentiments on the other