In history's grip : Philip Roth's Newark trilogy /

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Author / Creator:	Kimmage, Michael.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 198 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Subject:	Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation. Roth, Philip. American literature. American literature. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11139713

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ISBN:	9780804783675 0804783675 0804781826 9780804781824
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-194) and index. English.
Summary:	Each of Roth's novels from the 1990s uses Newark, New Jersey, to explore American history and character. Each features a protagonist who grows up in and then leaves Newark, after which he is undone by a historically generated crisis. The city's 20th century decline from immigrant metropolis to postindustrial disaster completes the motif of history and its terrifying power over individual destiny. This book is the first critical study to foreground the city of Newark as the source of Roth's inspiration, and to scrutinize a subject Roth was accused of avoiding as a younger writer - history.
Other form:	Print version: 0804781826 Print version: 9780804781824 Print version: 9780804783675

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