Title: New essays on The grapes of wrath
Description: Four essays and a general introduction provide contemporary readings of The Grapes of Wrath for a general audience. Written in an accessible style, the essays cover the issues and themes of Steinbeck's politics, metaphors of movement and growth, views of women, uses of documentary, and the conversion of the novel into film. The introduction provides a history of the novel's public reception, a summary of the major phases of critical response, and a reading of the novel as an act of returning west to Steinbeck's lost California.
Subjects: Data Collection, Labor camps in literature, Depressions in literature, The grapes of wrath (Steinbeck), History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Migrant agricultural laborers in literature, Diet Surveys, Grapes of wrath (Steinbeck, John), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (U.S.), Literature, Health Surveys, Rural families in literature, In literature, American fiction, Aufsatzsammlung, Steinbeck, john, 1902-1968, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Methods
Places: United States, California
People: John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Time periods: 20th century