American anti-pastoral : Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth /

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Phillip Roth's 1997 American Pastoral uses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock, New Jersey 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...

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Main Author:	Gustafson, Thomas, 1953- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2024].
Series:	Ceres: Rutgers studies in history.
Subjects:	Roth, Philip > Criticism and interpretation. Roth, Philip. > American pastoral. New Jersey > In literature.