Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America

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Overview

Philip Roth was without doubt one of the most important writers of fiction in the United States during the later part of the 20th century. This book collects new essays by noted Roth scholars on three essential novels appearing in recent years, 'American Pastoral', 'The Human Stain' and 'The Plot Against America.'

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826422279
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/16/2011
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Debra Shostak is Professor of English at The College of Wooster, Ohio. She is author of Philip Roth-Counterlives, Countertexts (2004).

Table of Contents

Series Preface
Acknowledgments
\Introduction: Roth's America
Part 1: American Pastoral
Introduction to Part 1
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
3. The Critique of the Pastoral, Utopia, and the American Dream in American Pastoral, Andrew Gordon
4. America's Haunted House: The Racial and National Uncanny in American Pastoral, Jennifer Glaser
Part II: The Human Stain
Introduction to Part 2
5. Race, Recognition, and Responsibility in The Human Stain, Dean Franco
6. Possessed by the Past: History, Nostalgia, and Language in The Human Stain, Catherine Morley
7. "The Pointless Meaningfulness of Living": Illuminating The Human Stain through The Scarlet Letter, Gabrielle Seeley and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
Part III: The Plot Against America
Introduction to Part 3
8. Just Folks Homesteading: Roth's Doubled Plots Against America ,Brett Ashley Kaplan
9. My Life as a Boy: The Plot Against America, Elaine M. Kauvar
10. Autobiography and History in The Plot Against America, or What Happened When Hitler Came to New Jersey, Timothy Parrish
Collected Notes
Works Cited
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index

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