{"product_id":"american-anti-pastoral-brookside-new-jersey-and-the-garden-state-of-philip-roth-paperback-softback-9781978838024","title":"American Anti-Pastoral; Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978838024","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Anti-Pastoral\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBrookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Gustafson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978838024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages, 6 B-W \u0026amp; 10 color images\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Thomas Gustafson’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anti-Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e, a study of Philip Roth’s literature through the prism of Brookside, New Jersey, is a well-written, intriguing, and accessible work of literary criticism. It is both an excellent contribution to 'Roth Studies' and at the same time something much more than that, a literary excursus into the relationship between place, myth-making, and literary creativity.” - Michael C. Kimmage (author of In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOne of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997 \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003euses 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Anti-Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003ereads 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAnti-Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Prologue \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Dismal Harmony\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Office of Letters and the Bomb: Brookside and Old Rimrock\u003cbr\u003e 2 Fourth of July Parade\u003cbr\u003e 3 Indigenous American Berserk\u003cbr\u003e 4 Fig Leaf: The Voice of the Pastoral\u003cbr\u003e 5 Walled Garden \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Babel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 All Babel Breaks Loose\u003cbr\u003e 7 Inside the Territory: Myth and History\u003cbr\u003e 8 Harmony: Bill Orcutt’s WASP History Tour\u003cbr\u003e 9 Dissonance: Bucky Robinson’s Jewish History Tour\u003cbr\u003e 10 Counterfactual: Beatrice and George Jenkins Sr.’s Black History Tour of Morristown\u003cbr\u003e 11 On the Dead-End Dirt Road: The Quiet Babel of Stoney Hill Road and Where Goodbye Newark Meets Goodbye Orchard\u003cbr\u003e 12 Brookside Bards: Steven Cramer’s Poetry of Protest and Christopher Merrill’s Poetry of Place \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Pentecost Remembered and Lost\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13 Brookside against the Current\u003cbr\u003e 14 NIMBY: Protecting Green Space with Green Money\u003cbr\u003e 15 The Price of Harmony\u003cbr\u003e 16 The Table of Otherhood and Communion\u003cbr\u003e 17 The Community Club and Its Dissidents\u003cbr\u003e 18\u003ci\u003e American Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e and Revolutions of the Word\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: “The Great New Jersey Novel”: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e and the Garden State of Letters \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640483508504,"sku":"9781978838024","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-anti-pastoral-brookside-new-jersey-and-the-garden-state-of-philip-roth-paperback-softback-9781978838024","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}