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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938- Understanding Of mice and men, The red pony, and The pearl. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997 (OCoLC)632054405 |
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| Named Person: | John Steinbeck; John Steinbeck; John Steinbeck; John Steinbeck |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Claudia Durst Johnson |
| ISBN: | 0313299668 9780313299667 |
| OCLC Number: | 35280807 |
| Description: | xiii, 213 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- 1. "The triumph of our species" : a literary analysis of three Steinbeck novellas -- 2. Old California and the West -- From Sketches of eighteenth-century America / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1912) -- From The sunset land, or, The great Pacific slope / John Todd (1870) -- From Captain Bonneville / Washington Irving (1895) -- From "The first emigrant train to California" / John Bidwell (1890-1891) -- From The sunset land, or The great pacific slope / John Todd (1890) -- 3. Land ownership -- From "Agrarian justice" / Thomas Paine (1797) -- From Letters from an American farmer / Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1912) -- From California : a study of American character / Josiah Royce (1886) -- From The Homestead Act of 1862 -- From "The lands of the United States" in The Life of Henry George / Henry George, Jr. (1900) -- From The Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (1937) -- From Ill fares the land / Carey McWilliams (1942). 4. The vagrant farm worker : homeless in Paradise -- From The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth ; written from his own dictation by T.D. Bonner / James P. Beckwourth (1856) -- From Scenery of the plains, mountains and mines : or a diary kept upon the overland route to California, by way of the Great Salt Lake ... in the years 1850, '51, '52 and '53 / Franklin Langworthy (1855) -- From The resources of California / John S. Hittell (1868) -- From California ... a study of American character / Josiah Royce (1886) -- From "California : character of the population" in Roughing It / Mark Twain (1892) -- From Migratory labor in American agriculture : report of the President's Commission on Migratory labor (1951) -- From The journal of a working man in John N. Webb, The migratory-casual worker (1937) -- From The hobo : the sociology of the homeless man / Nels Anderson (1923). 5. Losers of the American dream -- From One thousand homeless men / Alice Willard Solenberger (1910) -- From The hobo / Nels Anderson (1923) -- From Ill fares the land / Carey McWilliams (1942) -- From Newcomers and nomads in California / William T. Cross and Dorothy E. Cross (1937) -- From An interview with Brigadier Luther Smith of Birmingham, Alabama (1996). 6. The American dream in a Mexican setting -- From A glimpse of Old Mexico / James H. Wilkins (1901) -- From An American girl in Mexico / Elizabeth Visere McGary (1904) -- From On the Mexican highlands / William Seymour Edwards (1907) -- From Mexico with comparisons and conclusions / A.A. Graham (1907) -- From Mexico as I saw it / Mrs. Alec Tweedie (1911) -- From The real Mexico / H. Hamilton Fyfe (1914) -- From The social revolution in Mexico / Edward Alsworth Ross (1923) -- Index. |
| Series Title: | Greenwood Press "Literature in context" series. |
| Responsibility: | Claudia Durst Johnson. |
Abstract:
Although works of fiction, John Steinbeck's novellas Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony, and The Pearl are a window on the history of the times and places they portray. Learning about the historical, social, economic, and regional background of each novella is essential to a full understanding of it. This interdisciplinary collection of rich collateral materials features a variety of primary documents that shed light on each of these novellas - the pioneer days and life on the Western frontier, the early history of California, the gold rush, the plight of the migrant worker during the Great Depression, problems of the homeless and the hopeless, and oppression in Mexico in the early 20th century. Documents include memoirs of mountain men and pioneers, books of travel, sociological studies, a political treatise, a journal, reports of U.S. commissions, a comic memoir, and an interview with a Salvation Army general who worked with the downtrodden during the 1930s. Most of these materials are not available in printed form anywhere else. Each section of this casebook contains study questions, topics for research papers and class discussions, and lists of further reading for examining the issues raised by the novellas.
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