VOLUME I Preface Acknowledgements Brian Railsback: Introduction I: THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF GRAPES R.S. Simmonds: The Holograph Manuscript SECTION II: INFLUENCES ON GRAPES D. Čerče: Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath as Socialist/Communist Propaganda K.A. Rodger: A Shared Poetic M.J. Meyer: Fermenting The Grapes of Wrath C.M. Hilger: Sacred Path K. MacPhail: ‘He’s—a kind of a man’ A. Gilmore: Biblical Wilderness in The Grapes of Wrath J. Clark Pratt: Religion in The Grapes of Wrath III: GRAPES AND POLITICAL MOVEMENTS J. Arthur: Where Is The Dust? F. Schwieger: The Joad Collective S. Henkel: A Seditious Proposal L.A. Kirby: A Radical Revisioning J. Galligani Casey: Dis/Locating the Radical in the Grapes of Wrath R. Miltner: Monopolizing Monsters IV: GRAPES AND THEORY F.E. Cruz: ‘In Between a Past and Future Town’ R. Ficociello: Steinbeck’s Civil War H. Veggian: Displacements and Encampments V: GRAPES AND ECOLOGICAL/EVOLUTIONARY CONCERNS J.P. Turpin: Making and Breaking Golden Rules K. Hicks: ‘It ain’t kin we? It’s will we?’ VOLUME II VI: GRAPES AND RACE ISSUES A. Craig Lancaster: Subverting Eugenic Discourse E. Royston Battat: Okie Outlaws and Dust Bowl Fugitives S. Wald: ‘We Ain’t Foreign’ VII: GRAPES AND LANGUAGE/WORD CHOICE H. Sklar: Breaking Bread R.C. Evans: The Poetry of Folks Talkin’ D. Cosier Solomon: John Steinbeck and the King James Version VIII: GRAPES AND RHETORICAL APPROACHES/STRUCTURE D. Griesbach: ‘The Whole Texture of the Country at Once’ J.J. Han: A Defense of Steinbeck’s Intercalary Chapters in The Grapes of Wrath M. Seligman: A Picture and an Experience Emerge IX: GRAPES AS NATURALISTIC FICTION C.L. Etheridge, Jr.: The Grapes of Wrath and Literary Naturalism A. Gibbs: Naturalism and Steinbeck’s ‘Curious Compromise’ in The Grapes of Wrath X: GRAPES AND OTHER ARTS N. Allen: Re-Viewing John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath M.J. Meyer: Share and Share Alike K. Bosse: The Music of Steinbeck S.F.S. Pardini: Steinbeck, Guthrie, and Springsteen C.Z. Goering: Open Their Ears, Open Their Books, Open Their World XI: INFLUENCES OF GRAPES ON OTHERS E. Skipper: Conover’s Coyotes K.M. Haven: ‘An away thing and a stay thing’ Afterword Abstracts of Arguments About the Authors Index