Philip Roth : American Pastoral, the Human Stain, the Plot Against America.

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (185 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Continuum Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction Continuum studies in contemporary North American fiction.
Subject:	Roth, Philip -- Criticism and interpretation. Roth, Philip. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11261805

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Other authors / contributors:	Shostak, Debra B.
ISBN:	9781441171467 1441171460 1283089211 9781283089210 9781472542694 147254269X 9781441127297 1441127291 9780826426314 082642631X 9780826422279 0826422276
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2020. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Philip Roth has been one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the latter part of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Philip Roth collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, American Pastoral (1997), The Human Stain (2000), and The Plot Against America (2004). The volume illuminates Roth's multilayered perceptions of twentieth-century America as a place, a culture, and an idea that shapes its inhabitants in profound ways. Focusing on such topics as ethnicity, race, the family, trauma, American histo.
Other form:	Print version: Philip Roth. Continuum Intl Pub Group 2011 9780826426314

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Roth's America Debra Shostak; Part I American Pastoral; CHAPTER 2 "What was not supposed to happen had happened and what was supposed to happen had not happened": Subverting History in American Pastoral David Brauner; CHAPTER 3 The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral Andrew Gordon; CHAPTER 4 America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral Jennifer Glaser; Part II The Human Stain.
CHAPTER 5 Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain Dean FrancoCHAPTER 6 Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain Catherine Morley; CHAPTER 7 "The pointless meaning fulness of living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky; Part III The Plot Against America; CHAPTER 8 Just Folks Homesteading: Roth's Doubled Plots Against America Brett Ashley Kaplan; CHAPTER 9 My Life as a Boy:The Plot Against America Elaine M. Kauvar.
CHAPTER 10 Autobiography and History in Roth's The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey Timothy ParrishNotes on Chapters; Works Cited; Further Reading; Notes on Contributors; Index.

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