Stephen Railton (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: Railton, Stephen. “Pilgrims' Politics: Steinbeck's Art of Conversion.” In New Essays on The Grapes of Wrath, edited by David Wyatt, pp. 27-46. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[In the following essay, Railton contends that The Grapes of Wrath is about change at its most fundamental—biological and organic—level.]
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about things that grow—corn, peaches, cotton, and grapes of wrath. From the start Steinbeck identifies his vision of human...
Source: Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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