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American Anti-Pastoral

- Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth
Af: Thomas Gustafson Engelsk Hardback

American Anti-Pastoral

- Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth
Af: Thomas Gustafson Engelsk Hardback
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One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey.

American Anti-Pastoral reads the events in Roth’s novel in relation to the history of Brookside and its region. While Roth’s protagonist Seymour “Swede” Levov initially views Old Rimrock as an idyllic paradise within the Garden State, its real-world counterpart has a more complex past in its origins as a small industrial village, as well as a site for the politics of exclusionary zoning and a 1960s anti-war protest at its celebrated 4th of July parade. Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old Rimrock in comparison to Brookside and the novel in relationship to NJ literature, making a case for it as the Great New Jersey novel.  For Roth fans and history buffs alike, American Anti-Pastoral peels back the myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures along the fault-lines of race and religion in American democracy.
 
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One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, NJ as a microcosm for a nation in crisis during the cultural upheavals of the 1960s-70s. Critics have called Old Rimrock mythic, but it is based on a very real place: the small Morris county town of Brookside, New Jersey.

American Anti-Pastoral reads the events in Roth’s novel in relation to the history of Brookside and its region. While Roth’s protagonist Seymour “Swede” Levov initially views Old Rimrock as an idyllic paradise within the Garden State, its real-world counterpart has a more complex past in its origins as a small industrial village, as well as a site for the politics of exclusionary zoning and a 1960s anti-war protest at its celebrated 4th of July parade. Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old Rimrock in comparison to Brookside and the novel in relationship to NJ literature, making a case for it as the Great New Jersey novel.  For Roth fans and history buffs alike, American Anti-Pastoral peels back the myths about the bucolic Garden State countryside to reveal deep fissures along the fault-lines of race and religion in American democracy.
 
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 222
ISBN-13: 9781978838031
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1978838034
Udg. Dato: 14 jun 2024
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 127mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: Rutgers University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 jun 2024
Forfatter(e): Thomas Gustafson
Forfatter(e) Thomas Gustafson


Kategori US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States


ISBN-13 9781978838031


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 222


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 127mm


Højde 203mm


Udg. Dato 14 jun 2024


Oplagsdato 14 jun 2024


Forlag Rutgers University Press

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