American Anti-Pastoral by Thomas Gustafson - 9781978838024

Name: American Anti-Pastoral by Thomas Gustafson - 9781978838024
Brand: Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press

American Anti-PastoralBrookside, New Jersey and the Garden State of Philip Roth\nAuthor(s): Thomas Gustafson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rutgers University Press, United States\nImprint: Rutgers University Press\nISBN-13: 9781978838024, 978-1978838024\nSynopsis\nOne of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roths 1997American Pastoraluses 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.\n\nAmerican Anti-Pastoralreads the events in Roths novel in relation to the history of Brookside and its [url] Roths 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 zoni.