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This series of articles is more widely known as “Their Blood Is Strong,” the title given them when, with an epilogue, they were reprinted in
pamphlet form under the auspices of the Simon J. Lubin Society of California in the spring of 1938.
2
Lawrence Clark Powell, “Toward a Bibliography of John Steinbeck,” Colophon, 3 (Autumn, 1938), pp. 562–563.
3
Occident (Fall, 1936), P. 5.
4
Lewis Gannett, “Introduction,” The Portable Steinbeck (New York, 1946), PP. XX-XXI.
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Ibid., P. XXI.
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Marshal V. Hartranft, Grapes of Gladness: California’s Refreshing and Inspiring Answer to John Steinbeck's “The Grapes of Wrath” (Los Angeles, 1939).
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George Thomas Miron, The Truth About John Steinbeck and the Migrants (Los Angeles, 1939), p. 5.
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For details, see Martin Staples Shockley, “The Reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma,” American Literature, 15 (January, 1954), 351-361.
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Margaret Marshall, “Writers in the Wilderness,” The Nation, 149 (November 25, 1989), p. 579.
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Shockley, “The Reception of The Grapes of Wrath in Oklahoma;” p. 357. The reader interested in pursuing this topic further may find useful,
in addition to items already cited, the following: Carey McWilliams, “California Pastoral,” Antioch Review, 2 (March, 1942), 103–121; The La
Follette Committee Transcript, vol. 51; Wilson Library Bulletin, 14 (October, 1939). pp. 102, 165, and vol. 13 (May, 1939) p. 640; Carey
McWilliams, “What’s Being Done About the Joads?” The New Republic, 100 (September 20, 1939), pp. 178–180; Frank J. Taylor, “California’s
‘Grapes of Wrath,’ “ Forum and Century, 102 (November, 1939), pp. 232–238 (January 16, 1940); Leon Whipple, “Novels on Social Themes,”
Survey Graphic, 28 (June, 1939), p. 401; Richard Neuberger, “Who Are the Associated Framers?” Survey Graphic, 28 (September, 1939),
517–521, 555–557; the Nazi Bund’s Deutscher Weckruf und Beobachter, edited by Fritz Kuhn; Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field (Boston,
1939). Others are listed by Shockley.
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Miron, The Truth About John Steinbeck and the Migrants, p. 7. See also Elizabeth N. Monroe, The Novel and Society (Chapel Hill, 1941), p. 272 and
Earle Birney, review of The Grapes of Wrath in The Canadian Forum, 19 (June, 1939), p. 94.
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“Some Notes on John Steinbeck,” Antioch Review, 2 (Summer, 1942), p. 195.
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“The Harvest Gypsies,” San Francisco News, October 5, 1936, p. 3.
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“Dubious Rattle in California,” The Nation, 143 (September 12, 1936), p. 304
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“The Harvest Gypsies,” Sun Francisco News, October 7, 1936, p. 6.
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“The Harvest Gypsies,” San Francisco News, October 12, 1936, p. 8.
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“The Philosophical Joads,” Collage English, 2 (January, 1941), pp. 324–325. The resemblance of Casy to Emerson is also noted by Floyd Stovall
in his American Idealism (Norman. Oklahoma. 10.43), p. 164.
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“Jeffersonian Agrarianism in The Grapes of Wrath,” University of Kansas City Review, 14 (Winter, 1947), p. 150.
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“The Harvest Gypsies,” Sun Francisco News, October 8, 1936, p. 16.
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“The Novel and Our Time (Letchworth. Hertfordshire, England, 1948), p. 8.
21
The Craft of Fiction (New York, 1945), p. 33.
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For an excellent discussion of this point, see Joseph Warren Beach, American Fiction, 1930–1940 (New York, 1942), pp. 337-338.
23
Joseph Henry Jackson, “Introduction,” Limited Edition of The Grapes of Wrath (New York. 1940), pp. viii-ix.
24
The River (New York. 1938), unpaginated. According to the “Preface,” the text for this book was taken verbatim from the motion picture of
the same name.
25
The Craft of Fiction, p. 40.
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Harry Thornton Moore, for example, refers to Steinbeck’s failure to provide The Grapes of Wrath with “a proportioned and intensified drama,”
a “vital conflict,” or a “continuity of suspense.” The Novels of John Steinbeck (Chicago, 1939), pp. 59, 69.
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For an excellent discussion of this point, see Claude-Edmonde Magny, L’âge du roman americain (Paris, 1948), p. 187.
28
Alfred Kazin, On Native Grounds (New York, 1942), p. 397.
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