{"product_id":"reclaiming-john-steinbeck-writing-for-the-future-of-humanity-hardback-9781108844123","title":"Reclaiming John Steinbeck; Writing for the Future of Humanity (Hardback) 9781108844123","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eReclaiming John Steinbeck\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting for the Future of Humanity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA reevaluation of John Steinbeck exploring his timely interests in climate change, ecology, and social injustice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGavin Jones (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108844123, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e262 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.7 x 2 cm, 0.5 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Careful, balanced, and well written, Jones's book is a pleasure to read … Highly recommended.' B. Diemert, Choice Magazine\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJohn Steinbeck is a towering figure in twentieth-century American literature; yet he remains one of our least understood writers. This major reevaluation of Steinbeck by Gavin Jones uncovers a timely thinker who confronted the fate of humanity as a species facing climate change, environmental crisis, and a growing divide between the powerful and the marginalized. Driven by insatiable curiosity, Steinbeck's work crossed a variety of borders – between the United States and the Global South, between human and nonhuman lifeforms, between science and the arts, and between literature and film – to explore the transformations in consciousness necessary for our survival on a precarious planet. Always seeking new forms to express his ecological and social vision of human interconnectedness and vulnerability, Steinbeck is a writer of urgent concern for the twenty-first century, even as he was haunted by the legacies of racism and injustice in the American West.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Loving and Hating Steinbeck\u003cbr\u003e 1. Short Stories in School and Lab:'Tularecito' and 'The Snake'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Drought, Climate, and Race in the West: To a God Unknown\u003cbr\u003e 3. Race and Revision: 'The Vigilante' and 'Johnny Bear'\u003cbr\u003e 4. Becoming Animal: Theories of Mind in The Red Pony\u003cbr\u003e 5. What Is It Like to Be a Plant?: 'The Chrysanthemums' and 'The White Quail'\u003cbr\u003e 6. On Not Being a Modernist: Disability and Performance in Of Mice and Men\u003cbr\u003e 7. Emergence and Failure: The Middleness of The Grapes of Wrath\u003cbr\u003e 8. Borderlands: Extinction and the New World Outlook in Sea of Cortez\u003cbr\u003e 9. Mexican Revolutions: The Forgotten Village, The Pearl, and the Global South\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Aftertaste of Cannery Row\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literature \u0026amp; literary studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literature \u0026amp; literary studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literature%20\u0026amp;%20literary%20studies%20%5BD%5D%22\"\u003eD\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003089473816,"sku":"9781108844123","price":31.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108844123i.jpg?v=1696727749","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/reclaiming-john-steinbeck-writing-for-the-future-of-humanity-hardback-9781108844123","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}