The Grapes of Wrath: Text and Criticism
John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression follows the western moevement of wone family and a nation in search of work and human dignity. This completely updated Viking Critical Library Edition of The Grapes of Wrath includes the full text of the novel, corrected in 1996, as well as extensive and contextual material including:\ \ Essays placing The Grapes of Wrath in social context, including a 1942 essay by Carey McWilliams about migrant workers and working...
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Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisons against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots, Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.
The Grapes of Wrath Editor's Preface to the Second Edition Chronology A Note on the Text\ I. The Grapes of Wrath: The Text\ Map of the Joads' Journey\ II. The Social Context\ Frank J. Taylor, California's Grapes of Wrath\ Carey McWilliams, California Pastoral Martin Shockley, The Reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma\ III. The Creative Context\ Jackson J. Benson, The Background to the Composition of The Grapes of Wrath\ Robert DeMott, "Working Days and Hours": Steinbeck's Writing of The Grapes of Wrath\ John Steinbeck, Suggestion for an Interview with Joseph Henry Jackson\ IV. Criticism\ Editors' Introduction: The Pattern of Criticism Frederic I. Carpenter, The Philosophical Joads Peter Lisca, The Grapes of Wrath as Fiction Robert J. Griffin and William A. Freedman, Machines and Animals: Pervasive Motifs in The Grapes of Wrath\ John R. Reed, The Grapes of Wrath and the Esthetics of Indigence Patrick W. Shaw, Tom's Other Trip: Psycho-Physical Questing in The Grapes of Wrath\ John J. Conder, Steinbeck and Nature's Self: The Grapes of Wrath\ Louis Owens, The American Joads John Ditsky, The Ending of The Grapes of Wrath: A Further Commentary Nellie Y. McKay, From "Happy [?]-Wife-and-Motherdom": The Portrayal of Ma Joad in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath\ Mimi Reisel Gladstein, The Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck and the Eternal Immigrant\ Topics for Discussion and Papers Bibliography
