Of Mice and Men (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• Jackson J. Benson, editor, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck, Duke University Press, 1990, pp. 39 – 70.

  A collection of critical essays on all of Steinbeck's work. Part 2 contains three informative essays on Of Mice and Men. This book also contains a very useful bibliography of Steinbeck criticism.

• Paul McCarthy, John Steinbeck Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1981, pp. 57 – 64.

  Overview of Steinbeck's life and work. Chapter 3 deals with the 1930s and pages 57 – 64 with Of Mice and Men in particular.

• Joseph R. McElrath, and others, editors, John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 71 – 94.

  An extensive collection of contemporary Reviews of all of Steinbeck's work. Pages 71 – 94 contain reviews of Of Mice and Men.

• Louis Owens, John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America, Georgia University Press, pp. 100 – 106.

  Contains a short chapter on the themes of myth and determinism in Of Mice and Men.

• Jay Parini, John Steinbeck: A Biography, Henry Holt, 1995. A recent biography, shorter than the Benson biography.

  E. W. Tedlock, and C. V. Wicker, editors, Steinbeck and His Critics, University of New Mexico Press, 1957.

• A large collection of critical essays dealing with many thematic and aesthetic issues in Steinbeck's fiction.

  John H. Timmerman, John Steinbeck's Fiction: The Aesthetics of the Road Taken, Oklahoma University Press, 1986.

• Chapter 4 treats Of Mice and Men and In Dubious Battle together and discusses the thematic significance of the landscape in the two novels.