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Owens, Louis. The Grapes of Wrath: Trouble in the Promised Land. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
Wiener, Gary, ed. Readings on The Grapes of Wrath. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1999.
Wyatt, David, ed. New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
ADDITIONAL REFERENCES ON STEINBECK AND THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Note: Founded in 1968, the Steinbeck Quarterly, edited by Tetsumaro Hayashi at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, ceased publication in 1993. The clothbound annual Steinbeck Yearbook, edited by Barbara
Heavilin and published by the Edwin Mellen Press, ceased publication in 2003 after three volumes. The standard journal in the field, Steinbeck Studies (launched in 1987 as The Steinbeck Newsletter), is a publication of San Jose State University’s Center for Steinbeck Studies. The Steinbeck Society of Japan issues a serial newsletter and a journal. The following entries are not reproduced in any of the sources listed above.
Adams, Henry. “Thomas Hart Benton’s Illustrations for The Grapes of Wrath.” San Jose Studies 16 (Winter 1990), 6-18.
Apthorp, Elaine S. “Steinbeck, Guthrie, and Popular Culture.” San Jose Studies 16 (Winter 1990), 19-39.
Barry, Michael G. “Degrees of Mediation and Their Political Value in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.” In The Steinbeck Question: New Essays in Criticism. Donald R. Noble, ed. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1993, 108-24.
Baskind, Samantha. “The ‘True’ Story: LIFE Magazine, Horace Bristol, and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath,” Steinbeck Studies 15 (Winter 2005), 41-74.
Benson, Jackson J. “Through a Political Glass, Darkly: The Example of John Steinbeck.” Studies in American Fiction 12 (Spring 1984), 45-59.
Bristol, Horace. “John Steinbeck and The Grapes of Wrath.” The Steinbeck Newsletter 2 (Fall 1988), 6-8.
Cassuto, David N. “Turning Wine Into Water: Water as Privileged Signifier in The Grapes of Wrath.” In Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997, 55-75.
Cederstrom, Lorelei. “The ‘Great Mother’ in The Grapes of Wrath.” In Steinbeck and the Environment: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, and Wesley N. Tiffney, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997, 76-91.
Collins, Thomas. “From Bringing in the Sheaves, by ‘Windsor Drake.’” Journal of Modern Literature 5 (April 1976), 211-32.
Cologne-Brooks, Gavin. “The Ghost of Tom Joad: Steinbeck’s Legacy in the Songs of Bruce Springsteen.” In Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck. Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002, 34-46.
Conlogue, William. “Disciplining the Farmer: Class and Agriculture in The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and Of Human Kindness (1940).” In Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001, 95-126.
Conner, Ken, and Debra Heimerdinger. “The Grapes of Wrath, 1937-1938.” In Horace Bristol: An American View. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996, 55-69. [Selection of Bristol’s Visalia photographs.]
DeMott, Robert. “’This Book Is My Life’: Creating The Grapes of Wrath.” In Steinbeck’s Typewriter: Essays on His Art. Troy, NY: Whitston Publishing, 1996, 146-205.
——— “The Status of The Grapes of Wrath.” The Steinbeck Newsletter 12 (Spring 1999), 22.
——— “The Place We Have Arrived: On Writing/Reading toward Cannery Row.” In Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck. Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002, 295-313.
Dircks, Phyllis T. “Steinbeck’s Statement on the Inner Chapters of The Grapes of Wrath.” Steinbeck Quarterly 24 (Summer-Fall 1991), 86-94. [Steinbeck’s 1953 letter to Herbert Sturz.]
Feied, Frederick. “The Grapes of Wrath: The Thirties.” In The Tidepool and the Stars: The Ecological Basis of Steinbeck’s Depression Novels. Philadelphia: Xlibris, 2001, 66-79.