Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition

This book offers a combined historical and aesthetic analysis of five novels from Philip Roth’s later career. It reads these works in the context of political, cultural, and literary developments in America from the New Deal to the present.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Preamble: Zuckerman's Agonies in the Earlier Novels
Chapter 2: "Redface": Liberal Politics and Literary Style in I Married a Communist
Chapter 3: Shattering of the Liberal Consensus in American Pastoral
Chapter 4: "Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes": Race and Ethnicity in The Human Stain
Chapter 5: Exit Ghost: "A book about knowing where to go for your agony"
Chapter 6: The Beginning as End: Unending Trauma in The Plot against America
Bibliography
About the Author

Über den Autor / die Autorin

By Andy Connolly

Zusammenfassung

This book offers a combined historical and aesthetic analysis of five novels from Philip Roth's later career. It reads these works in the context of political, cultural, and literary developments in America from the New Deal to the present.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andy Connolly
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781498511803
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1180-3
• Seiten: 292
• Serien: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, Literature, & Film
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung