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  title info:
    title: Steinbeck's uneasy America
    sub title: rereading Travels with Charley
  name:
    name part: Heavilin, Barbara A.
    name part: 1945-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Shillinglaw, Susan
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Steinbeck's Uneasy America is the first collection of critical scholarship devoted to Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck's best-selling, late-career travel memoir. In 1960, Steinbeck was a renowned man of American letters. Many considered him America's troubadour of ordinary people, the conscience of the country. But weakened by two small strokes and anxious that he had lost touch with America, he embarked on a cross-country road trip accompanied by his wife's standard poodle, Charley. Two years later, he published Travels with Charley to popular acclaim and robust sales. Throughout this narrative, Steinbeck insists that all of our perceptions are "warped" by personality, history and society. And while this hybrid and experimental book has long been accepted as an accurate account of his journey, journalists and scholars agree that the narrative is part factual, part fiction-America as seen through Steinbeck's particular "warp." The work is long overdue for scholarly assessment. Steinbeck's Uneasy America explores three main topics. Part 1 explores genre and form to consider the degree to which the work is fiction or nonfiction. Part 2 assesses Steinbeck's increasingly bleak assessment of America, almost a jeremiad that warns citizens of ecological excess and political apathy. Part 3 focuses on Travels with Charley as a road text, travel adventure and literary influence. This volume's authors offer rich scholarly insights and a wealth of stories, facts and anecdotes about Steinbeck and the adventures and misadventures he and Charley met on the road. Lively and groundbreaking, the collection both enlightens and enlivens discussions of Steinbeck and of the twentieth-century American book world.
  note: edited by Barbara A. Heavilin and Susan Shillinglaw.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-231) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Steinbeck, John
      name part: 1902-1968
    topic: Travel
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Travel writing
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PS3537.T3234 Z885 2025
  classification: 813/.52
  identifier: 9780817322199
  identifier: 0817322191
  identifier: 9780817361815
  identifier: 0817361812
  identifier: 9780817395391
  identifier: 2024022112
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240523
    record change date: 20250328203403.8
    record identifier: in00005617096