A Political Companion to John Steinbeck

Selected Bibliography

Selected Bibliography 353 Below are resources for readers interested in the politics and political vision of John Steinbeck. Examples of both classic studies and contemporary research are listed. While by no means a complete record of all the academic work undertaken on Steinbeck and his politics, the selected bibliography indicates the range of themes and disciplinary approaches that scholars have pursued and applied. For more extensive lists of the writings used in the making of this book, please see the endnotes to the individual chapters. Writings by John Steinbeck Steinbeck, John. America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction. Edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Jackson J. Benson. New York: Viking Penguin, 2002. ———. Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team. New York: Viking Press, 1942. ——— . The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings, 1936–1941: The Long Valley / The Grapes of Wrath / The Log from the Sea of Cortez / The Harvest Gypsies. Edited by Robert DeMott and Elaine Steinbeck. New York: Library of America, 1996. ———. Novels, 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden. Edited by Robert DeMott. New York: Library of America, 2001. ———. Novels and Stories, 1932–1937: The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / In Dubious Battle / Of Mice and Men. Edited by Robert DeMott and Elaine Steinbeck. New York: Library of America, 1994. ———. A Russian Journal. New York: Viking Press, 1948. ———. Speech Accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. New York: Viking Press, 1962. 354 Selected Bibliography ———. Steinbeck: A Life in Letters. Edited by Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten . New York: Viking Penguin, 1975. ———. Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War. Edited by Thomas E. Barden. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ———. Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947–1962: The Wayward Bus / Burning Bright / Sweet Thursday / The Winter of Our Discontent / Travels with Charley in Search of America. Edited by Robert DeMott and Brian Railsback. New York: Library of America, 2007. ———. Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath, 1938–1941. Edited by Robert DeMott. New York: Viking Penguin, 1989. ——— . Zapata. Edited by Robert E. Morsberger. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. Biographies of John Steinbeck Benson, Jackson J. Looking for Steinbeck’s Ghost. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. ———. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer. New York: Viking Press, 1984. Kiernan, Thomas. The Intricate Music: A Biography of John Steinbeck. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. Parini, Jay. John Steinbeck: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt, 1995. St. Pierre, Brian. John Steinbeck: The California Years. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1983. Valjean, Nelson. John Steinbeck, the Errant Knight: An Intimate Biography of His California Years. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1975. On Steinbeck’s Politics and Political Visions Astro, Richard. John Steinbeck and Edward F. Ricketts: The Shaping of a Novelist . Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973. Barry, Michael G. “Degrees of Mediation and Their Political Value in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.” In The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism, edited by Donald R. Noble, 108–24. Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1993. Benson, Jackson J. “Through a Political Glass Darkly: The Example of John Steinbeck .” Studies in American Fiction 12 (Spring 1984): 45–59. ———. “‘To Tom, Who Lived It’: John Steinbeck and the Man from Weedpatch.” Journal of Modern Literature 5, no. 2 (April 1976): 151–210. Benson, Jackson J., and Anne Loftis. “John Steinbeck and Farm Labor Unioniza- Selected Bibliography 355 tion: The Background of In Dubious Battle.” American Literature 52 (May 1980): 194–223. Britch, Carroll, and Cliff Lewis. “Shadow of the Indian in the Fiction of John Steinbeck.” MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the MultiEthnic Literature of the United States 11 (1984): 39–58. Cook, Sylvia J. “Steinbeck, the People, and the Party.” Steinbeck Quarterly 15 (Winter–Spring 1982): 11–23. Donohue, Agnes McNeil, ed. A Casebook on The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Crowell, 1968. Eisinger, Chester E. “Jeffersonian Agrarianism in The Grapes of Wrath.” University of Kansas City Review 14 (Winter 1947): 149–54. Evans, Thomas G. “Interpersonal Dilemmas: The Collision of Modernist and Popular Traditions in Two Political Novels, The Grapes of Wrath and Ragtime.” South Atlantic Review 52 (1987): 71–85. George, Stephen K. The Moral Philosophy of John Steinbeck. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2005. Gold, Christina Sheehan. “Changing Perceptions of Homelessness: John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and California during the 1930s.” In Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck, edited by Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle, 47–65. Tuscaloosa...