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One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 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.

American Anti-Pastoralreads 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 4thof July parade.Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old

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One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 1997American Pastoraluses the fictional hamlet of Old Rimrock,... Read more

    Publisher: Rutgers University Press
    Publication Date: 6/14/2024
    ISBN13: 9781978838031, 978-1978838031
    ISBN10: 1978838034

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    One of the best-known novels taking place in New Jersey, Philip Roth’s 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.

    American Anti-Pastoralreads 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 4thof July parade.Literary historian and Brookside native Thomas Gustafson casts Roth’s canonical novel in a fresh light as he studies both Old

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