Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition
Andy Connolly, "Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition "
English | ISBN: 1498511805 | 2017 | 292 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1014 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1498511805 | 2017 | 292 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1014 KB + 2 MB
Philip Roth and the American Liberal Tradition offers a fresh reading of the later career development of one of America’s most celebrated authors. Through a contextual analysis of a select number of texts, this innovative study discusses how famed novels such as American Pastoral and The Plot against America demonstrate Philip Roth’s considerable interest in mapping, by means of his unique literary talent, the changing shape and fortunes of American liberalism since the 1930s. By viewing these novels and other seminal works of his later period through a wider historical lens, this book informs readers of the myriad ways in which Roth’s major phase of writing since the mid-1990s has shown considerable
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