Contents
Preface / Tetsumaro Hayashi
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Power and Grace: The Shape of a Tradition / John H. Timmerman
Part I: The Years of Greatness: Steinbeck's Women
1. "Your Own Mind Coming Out in the Garden": Steinbeck's Elusive Woman / John Ditsky
2. After The Grapes of Wrath: A Speculative Essay on John Steinbeck's Suite of Love Poems for Gwyn, "The Girl of the Air" / Robert DeMott
3. Looking at Lisa: The Function of the Feminine in Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle / Abby H. P. Werlock
4. The Dialogic Tension in Steinbeck's Portrait of Curley's Wife / Charlotte Cook Hadella
Part II: The Years of Greatness: Steinbeck's Worker Trilogy
5. Writing "in Costume": The Missing Voices of In Dubious Battle / Louis Owens
6. Sharing Creation: Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle, and the Working-Class Novel in American Literature / Thomas M. Tammaro
7. Reflections of Doc: The Persona of Ed Ricketts in Of Mice and Men / Thomas Fensch
8. Tell Again, George / Robert E. Morsberger
9. The Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck and the Eternal Immigrant / Mimi Reisel Gladstein
10. California Answers The Grapes of Wrath / Susan Shillinglaw
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index