Steinbeck and the environment : interdisciplinary approaches /
Beegel, Susan F.,1954-
Shillinglaw, Susan.
Tiffney, Wesley N.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press,
c1997.
"Essays originally presented at a conference held in Nantucket, Mass., in May 1992"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index.
John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts : understanding life in the great tide pool / James C. Kelley -- Steinbeck on man and nature : a philosophical reflection / Richard E. Hart -- Turning wine into water : water as privileged signifier in the The grapes of wrath / David N. Cassuto -- The "great mother" in The grapes of wrath / Lorelei Cederstrom -- Steinbeck's ecological polemic : human sympathy and visual documentary in the intercalary chapters of The grapes of wrath / Peter Valenti -- Natural wisdom : Steinbeck's men of nature as prophets and peacemakers / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre --Searching for "what is" : Charles Darwin and John Steinbeck / Brian Railsback -- "The poetry of scientific thinking" : Steinbeck's Log from the Sea of Cortez and scientific travel narrative / Stanley Brodwin -- Revisiting the Sea of Cortez with a "green" perspective / Clifford Eric Gladstein and Mimi Reisel Gladstein -- Education of environmental scientists : should we listen to Steinbeck and Ricketts's comments? / Peter A.J. Englert -- The Pearl in the Sea of Cortez : Steinbeck's use of environment / Kiyoshi Nakayama -- "Working at the impossible" : Moby-Dick's presence in East of Eden / Robert DeMott -- At sea in the tide pool : the whaling town and America in Steinbeck's The winter of our discontent and Travels with Charley / Nathaniel Philbrick -- "The scars of our grasping stupidity" and the "Sucked orange" : John Steinbeck and the ecological legacy of John Burroughs / H.R. Stoneback -- Steinbeck under the sea at the earth's core / Robert E. Morsberger -- How green was John Steinbeck? / Warren French -- John Steinbeck : late-blooming environmentalist / Joel W. Hedgpeth -- Steinbeck's environmental ethic : humanity in harmony with the land / John H. Timmerman -- A world to be cherished : Steinbeck as conservationist and ecological prophet / Roy Simmonds.
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968
Environmental protection in literature
Human ecology in literature