John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty-first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America.
John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty-first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Gavin Jones is the Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of the Humanities at Stanford University, where he has taught American literature since 1999. He is the author of Strange Talk: The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America (University of California Press, 1999), American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in US Literature, 1840-1945 (Princeton University Press, 2008), and Failure and the American Writer: A Literary History (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Loving and Hating Steinbeck 1. Short Stories in School and Lab:'Tularecito' and 'The Snake' 2. Drought, Climate, and Race in the West: To a God Unknown 3. Race and Revision: 'The Vigilante' and 'Johnny Bear' 4. Becoming Animal: Theories of Mind in The Red Pony 5. What Is It Like to Be a Plant?: 'The Chrysanthemums' and 'The White Quail' 6. On Not Being a Modernist: Disability and Performance in Of Mice and Men 7. Emergence and Failure: The Middleness of The Grapes of Wrath 8. Borderlands: Extinction and the New World Outlook in Sea of Cortez 9. Mexican Revolutions: The Forgotten Village, The Pearl, and the Global South Epilogue: The Aftertaste of Cannery Row Notes Index.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Loving and Hating Steinbeck 1. Short Stories in School and Lab:'Tularecito' and 'The Snake' 2. Drought, Climate, and Race in the West: To a God Unknown 3. Race and Revision: 'The Vigilante' and 'Johnny Bear' 4. Becoming Animal: Theories of Mind in The Red Pony 5. What Is It Like to Be a Plant?: 'The Chrysanthemums' and 'The White Quail' 6. On Not Being a Modernist: Disability and Performance in Of Mice and Men 7. Emergence and Failure: The Middleness of The Grapes of Wrath 8. Borderlands: Extinction and the New World Outlook in Sea of Cortez 9. Mexican Revolutions: The Forgotten Village, The Pearl, and the Global South Epilogue: The Aftertaste of Cannery Row Notes Index.
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