In this Book
- Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores in-depth a topic previously neglected by scholars: John Steinbeck's early continuing preoccupation with ecology and marine biology and the effect of that interest on his writings. Written by scholars from various disciplines, the essays offer a dynamic contribution to the study of John Steinbeck by considering his writings from an environmental perspective. They reveal Steinbeck as a prophet that was ahead of his time and supremely relevant to our own.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xvi
- Abbreviations
- pp. xvii-21
- Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- Part One: Origins
- pp. 25-47
- 1. John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts
- pp. 27-42
- 2. Steinbeck on Man and Nature
- pp. 43-52
- Part Two: The Grapes of Wrath
- pp. 53-75
- 3. Turning Wine into Water
- pp. 55-75
- 5. Steinbeck's Ecological Polemic
- pp. 92-112
- 6. Natural Wisdom
- pp. 113-124
- Part Three: Sea of Cortez
- pp. 125-147
- 7. Searching for "What Is"
- pp. 127-141
- 8. "The Poetry of Scientific Thinking"
- pp. 142-160
- 10. Education of Environmental Scientists
- pp. 176-193
- 11. The Pearl in the Sea of Cortez
- pp. 194-208
- Part Four: Later Works
- pp. 209-231
- 12. "Working at the Impossible"
- pp. 211-228
- 13. At Sea in the Tide Pool
- pp. 229-242
- 14. 'The Scars of Our Grasping Stupidity"
- pp. 243-265
- Part Five: Overviews
- pp. 279-301
- 16. How Green Was John Steinbeck?
- pp. 281-292
- 17. John Steinbeck
- pp. 293-309
- 18. Steinbeck's Environmental Ethic
- pp. 310-322
- 19. A World to Be Cherished
- pp. 323-334
- Bibliography
- pp. 335-348
- Contributors
- pp. 349-356
Additional Information
Copyright
2007
Project MUSE Mission
Project MUSE promotes the creation and dissemination of essential humanities and social science resources through collaboration with libraries, publishers, and scholars worldwide. Forged from a partnership between a university press and a library, Project MUSE is a trusted part of the academic and scholarly community it serves.
