John Steinbeck: The Collection of  Preston Beyer: Donated to the Princeton University Library   
 By His Daughters:  Barbara A. Rice,  Marilyn S. Shuffler,  Lynne B. Sagalyn.
 Annotated Catalogue of the Collection
 
LITERARY CRITICISM:  OF JS AND OTHERS, WRITTEN AFTER HIS DEATH
ALLEN, Walter. The Urgent West: The American Dream and Modern Man. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969. JS pp. 58-59, 214-218. [Beyer - ABOUT - 332]
BLAKE, Nelson Manfred. Novelists' America: Fiction as History, 1910-1940. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1969. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 333]
BROWNE, Ray B. and Donald Pizer (editors). Themes and Directions in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Leon Howard. Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Studies, 1969. First edition. JS pp. 205, 209, 211, 212. [Beyer - ABOUT - 334]
BRYER, Jackson R. (editor). Fifteen Modern American Authors: A Survey of Research and Criticism. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1970. Second Printing. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 335]
FRENCH, Warren. The Fifties: The Age of Salinger. Florida: Everett/Edwards, (c1970). Inscribed by author to Preston Beyer, February 28, 1970. One of 300 numbered special advance edition copies. JS pp. 7-8. [Beyer - ABOUT - 336]
FRENCH, Warren (editor). The Fifties: Fiction, Poetry, Drama. Deland, Florida: Everett/Edwards, 1970. Inscribed by editor to Preston Beyer. JS pp. 7-8, 63-71, 222, 235. [Beyer - ABOUT - 337]
FONTENROSE, Joseph. The Ritual Theory of Myth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1971. Reference to "To A God Unknown," p. 47n.25. [Beyer - ABOUT - 338]
LUTWACK, Leonard. Heroic Fiction: The Epic Tradition and American Novels of the Twentieth Century. Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 339]
MADDEN, David (editor). Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of their Favorite Authors. New York: Crown Publishers, 1971. Joyce Carol Oates compares Grapes of Wrath compared to The Dollmaker by Harriette Arnow, p. 66.  [Beyer - ABOUT - 340]
MOORE, Harry T. "Age of the Modern" and Other Literary Essays. Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1971. First edition. JS pp. xvii-xviii, 81-88. [Beyer - ABOUT - 341]
DEAKIN, Motley and Peter Lisca (editors). From Irving To Steinbeck. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1972. JS pp. 125-140. [Beyer - ABOUT - 342]
HUBBELL, Jay B. Who Are the Major American Writers? Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1972. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 343]
MAGNY, Claude-Edmonde. The Age of the American Novel: The Film Aesthetic of Fiction Between the Two Wars. New York, Frederic Ungar, (cl972). JS pp. ix, 36, 45, 48, 72-73, 161-177. [Beyer - ABOUT - 344]
HAYASHI, Tetsumaro. The Agony And Ecstasy Of Writing And Editing. Muncie, Indiana: The John Steinbeck Society of America, 1973. JS pp. 2, 6, 11. [Beyer - ABOUT - 345]
ROBBINS, J. Albert (editor). American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1971. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1973. First edition. JS pp. 210, 221, 231-236. [Beyer - ABOUT - 346]
HASLAM, Gerald W. (editor). Western Writing. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1974. JS pp. 72, 78, 107, 134, 139, 140, 143. [Beyer - ABOUT - 347]
HOHENBURG, John. The Pulitzer Prizes. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. JS pp. 6, 138, 139, 140-143, 154, 226, 258, 294. [Beyer - ABOUT - 348]
WALCUTT, Charles Child (editor). Seven Novelists in the American Naturalist Tradition. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1974. Contains "John Steinbeck" by James Gray, pp. 205-244. [Beyer - ABOUT - 349]
BARTEL, R. with J. S. Ackerman and T. S. Warshaw (editors). Biblical Images in Literature. New York: Abingdon Press, (c1975). JS chapter 12, "Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck's Parable of the Curse of Cain" by W. Goldhurst, pp. 137-147. [Beyer - ABOUT - 350]
WOODRESS, James (editor). American Literary Scholarship: An Annual/1974. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1976. JS pp. 253-255-259, 276, 341, 406, 442. [Beyer - ABOUT - 351]
CASSILL, R. V. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction: Instructor's Handbook for the Complete and Shorter Editions. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, (c1977). "The Chrysanthemums," pp. 193-195. [Beyer - ABOUT - 351a]
BRAUN, Sidney D. and Seymour Lainoff (editors). Transatlantic Mirrors: Essays in Franco-American Literary Relations. Boston: Twayne, 1978. JS pp. 19, 236, 245, 246, 253, 254. [Beyer - ABOUT - 352]
COWLEY, Malcolm. And I Worked At the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978. New York: Viking Press, 1978. Signed by author. JS pp. 101, 110, 128. [Beyer - ABOUT - 353]
Another copy, published in New York: Penguin Books, 1978. JS pp. 101, 110, 128. [Beyer - ABOUT - 354]
CRAIG, David and Michael Egan. Extreme Situations: Literature and Crisis from the Great War to the Atom Bomb. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979. JS pp. 6, 141, 152, 162-166, 168, 201. [Beyer - ABOUT - 355]
HOFFMAN, Daniel (editor). Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1979. JS pp. 87, 91-93, 104, 111, 112, 119. [Beyer - ABOUT - 356]
OUSBY, Ian. An Introduction to Fifty American Novels. London: Pan Books, 1979. JS pp. 207, 275, 277-278, 303-315. [Beyer - ABOUT - 357]
SEYMOUR-SMITH, Martin (editor). Novels and Novelists: A Guide to the World of Fiction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. JS pp. 43, 47, 221. [Beyer - ABOUT - 357a]
DONALD, Miles. The American Novel in the Twentieth Century. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1981. JS pp. 8, 16, 59-72, 200. [Beyer - ABOUT - 358]
GIBSON, Donald B. The Politics of Literary Expression: A Study of Major Black Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1981. JS pp. 15n.8, 54. [Beyer - ABOUT - 359]
HAYASHI, Tetsumaro. Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent as Shakespearean Fiction. Muncie, Indiana: Ball State University, 1981. JS pp. 15-25. Inscribed by Tetsumaro Hayashi to Preston Beyer. [Beyer - ABOUT - 360]
STROUT, Cushing. The Veracious Imagination: Essays on American History, Literature, and Biography. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1981. JS pp. 78-82, 100. [Beyer - ABOUT - 360a]
POWELL, Lawrence Clark. California Classics. Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1982. JS pp. 220-230, 318, 349. [Beyer - ABOUT - 361]
RAO, B. Ramachandra. The American Fictional Hero. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1982. JS pp. 54-81. [Beyer - ABOUT - 362]
MARTIN, Stoddard. California Writers: Jack London and John Steinbeck: The Tough Guys. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. [Beyer - ABOUT - 363]
BERGMAN, David, Joseph de Roche, and Daniel Mark Epstein (prepared by). The Heath Guide to Literature: Instructor's Manual. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath, 1984. JS p. 50, "The Chrysanthemums." [Beyer - ABOUT - 364]
VINAVER, Eugene. The Rise of Romance. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984. JS. pp. ix, 42, 139. [Beyer - ABOUT - 365]
COWLEY, Malcolm. The Flower and the Leaf: A Contemporary Record of American Writing Since 1941. New York: Viking Press, 1985. Signed by author. JS pp. 6, 191, 192, 232. [Beyer - ABOUT - 366]
KARL, Frederick R. American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation. New York: Harper and Row, 1985. JS pp. xiiin, 23, 75, 77, 94, 198. [Beyer - ABOUT - 367]
LONG, Elizabeth. The American Dream and the Popular Novel. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985. JS pp. 22, 94, 96-98, 192. [Beyer - ABOUT - 368]
THOMPSON, Raymond H. The Return From Avalon: A Study of the Arthurian Legend in Modern Fiction. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, (c1985). See index for references to JS's The Acts of King Arthur and Tortilla Flat. [Beyer - ABOUT - 369]
GLADSTEIN, Mimi Reisel. The Indestructible Women in Faulkner, Hemingway, and Steinbeck. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, 1986. See index for JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 370]
MILLS, Nicolaus. The Crowd in American Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. JS pp. l2, 78, 98, 100-109. [Beyer - ABOUT - 371]
SILVERMAN, Al (editor). The Book of the Month: Sixty Years of Books in American Life. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1986. JS pp. 49, 51-53. [Beyer - ABOUT - 372]
THE WESTERN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION. A Literary History of the American West. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1987. JS pp. 424-446, "John Steinbeck" by Richard Astro, pp. 424-426. See index for further JS references. [Beyer - ABOUT - 373]
SHLOSS, Carol. Invisible Light: Photography and the American Writers: 1840-1940. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, (c1987). JS pp. 19-21, 200-229, 231. [Beyer - ABOUT - 373a]
DILLARD, Annie. Living By Fiction. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. Perennial Library. JS pp. 81-82. [Beyer - ABOUT - 374]
BARBOUR, James and Tom Quirk (editors). Writing the American Classics. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Contains "The Mirror and the Vamp: Invention, Reflection, and Bad, Bad Cathy Trask in East of Eden" by Louis Owens, pp. 235-257.  [Beyer - ABOUT - 375]
GREINER, Donald J. Women Enter the Wilderness: Male Bonding and the American Novel of the 1980s. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. JS pp. 18, 31, 82, 90, 94. [Beyer - ABOUT - 376]
QUINONES, Ricardo J. The Changes of Cain. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991. JS pp. 12, 135-144, 243. [Beyer - ABOUT - 377]
 
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