American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth's 1997 American Pastoral uses the...
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Author: Thomas Gustafson
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American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth by Gustafson, Thomas

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

$93.28

American Anti-Pastoral: Brookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth

$93.28
Author: Thomas Gustafson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.


Author: Thomas Gustafson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 06/14/2024
Pages: 222
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781978838024

About the Author
THOMAS GUSTAFSON is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern California and the author of Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865. Born and raised in Brookside, he now calls Echo Park in Los Angeles his home.

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