Steinbeck and the environment : interdisciplinary approaches / edited by Susan F. Beegel, Susan Shillinglaw, Wesley N. Tiffney, Jr. ; with a foreword by Elaine Steinbeck.

Contributor Beegel, Susan F., 1954-

Imprint:Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1997.

Descriptionxvi, 363 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Essays originally presented at a conference held in Nantucket, Mass., in May 1992.

Note:Part One: Origins: -- 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 -- Part Two: The Grapes of Wrath: -- Turning wine into water: water as privileged signifier in 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 -- Part Three: Sea of Cortez: -- 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, 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 -- Part Four: Later Works: -- "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. -- Part Five: Overviews: -- 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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-348) and index.

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